Saturday, May 16, 2026

Robert Alter on Isaiah 64:6

  

gave us over. This translation reads instead of the Masoretic watemugeinu (“you melted us”) watemageinu, a reading reflected in three ancient versions. (Robert Alter, The Hebrew Bible, 3 vols. [New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2019], 2:836)

 

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