“People just inherently assume that a translation is inferior to the original, and I don’t like that assumption,” Cohen said. Sign up now to attend JTA’s event with translator Jessica Cohen on May 20 ...

Robert Alter has accomplished the monumental feat, 22 years in the making, of single-handedly translating the Hebrew Bible into English. Since he began, Alter’s translation has been published in ...

Rozenblum said her job is to exactly translate the president’s words from English to Hebrew, even if she disagrees with what he’s saying. U.S. President Donald Trump looks towards Israeli Prime ...

For 24 years, literary scholar Robert Alter has been working on a new translation of the Hebrew Bible and — "this may shock some of your listeners," he warns — he's been working on it by hand. "I'm ...

Translating the Bible well is not just a matter of making it sound good, but also representing what actually goes on in the Hebrew literary text faithfully and accurately. (Volodymyr Zakharov / iStock ...