Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the LORD for ever.Īlter reminds us that Hebrew has a structural brevity that is hard to mimic in English, because in Hebrew, among other differences, “the pronominal subject of verbs is usually indicated by the way the verb is conjugated, without need to introduce the pronoun, unless it is added for emphasis.” Thus, in Alter’s example, “He will guard you” is one word, yishmorkha. Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil my cup runneth over. Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me thy rod and thy staff comfort me. Look at what Alter does with the last three verses of Psalm 23, that loyal retainer at funerals and memorial services. Because the Psalms are poems, he wants to preserve in English what he calls the “rhythmic compactness” of the originals, “something one could scarcely guess from the existing English versions.” His helpful introduction is more polemical than the exegeses he has provided for his other translations: he argues that even the King James translators, whom he, like everyone else, has always admired, pad out their versions with filler. He is particularly alive to formal aspects of ancient Hebrew poetry and prose such as repetition, internal rhythm, and parallelism (in which a phrase amplifies and almost repeats a preceding phrase, as in “He shall come down like rain upon the mown grass: as showers that water the earth,” from Psalm 72). His work has been characterized by eloquence, scholarly scrupulousness, and a desire to convey in English the concrete ferocity of the original Hebrew. Alter has previously translated a good portion of the Old Testament: the five books of Moses (the Pentateuch, or Torah) and the two books of Samuel. Robert Alter’s new translation, “The Book of Psalms” (Norton $35), is radical, at least to a reader brought up on the early-seventeenth-century King James Version. Jesus cried out at his abandonment on the Cross by quoting the opening verse of Psalm 22, “My God, my God, why have You forsaken me?” The verses continue: But these images, these human metaphors, also expose the frailty of such supplication, since just as God is conjured into words he seems to disappear: many of the Psalms are like flares sent out into the night sky of appeal. In them, the supplicants invoke God as their light, their water, their warrior, their scourge, their buckler, their rod, and their staff. The Book of Psalms is the great oasis in which a desert people gathers to pour out its complaints, fears, hopes the Psalms are prayers, songs, incantations, and perhaps even soliloquies. And, not only that, but from the very book that dramatizes, again and again, the gap between our language and the indescribable God, between our certainty that God is with us and our anxiety that he has abandoned us, between his cosmic proportions and our comic littleness. Whatever one thinks of Maimonides’ chilly rigor, it is cannily paradoxical that even as he advises silence he quotes from the noisiest book in the Hebrew Bible. “Silence is praise to thee,” Maimonides wrote, quoting from the second verse of Psalm 65. We cannot describe his essence better to worship in reverent silence. What is God like? Is he merciful, just, loving, vengeful, jealous? Is he a bodiless force, a cool watchmaker, or a hot interventionist, a doer with big opinions, a busy chap up in Heaven? Does he, for instance, approve of charity and disapprove of adultery? Or are these attributes instead like glass baubles that we throw against the statue of his invisibility, inevitably shattering into mere words? The medieval Jewish thinker Maimonides thought that it was futile to belittle God by giving him human attributes to do so was to commit what later philosophers would call a category mistake.
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