num_pages: 378
description: The Anchor series is a book-by-book translation of the bible each complete with introduction &amp; notes. Psalms I.1-50 is translated &amp; edited by Mitchell Dahood SJ Ugaritic Language &amp; Literature professor at Rome's Pontifical Biblical Institute. His new translation is considered in the context of the literary achievement of the King James Version &amp; in the light of more recent renderings. Thus a word of explanation is appropriate. The translation offered here differs from earlier efforts. It isn't the fruit of a confrontation of the Hebrew with ancient versions from which the least objectionable reading is plucked. Rather from a close examination of the original a unique translation has been attempted one which relies heavily on contemporary linguistic evidence. It's a translation accompanied by philological commentary that lays heavy stress on the Ras-Shamra texts &amp; other epigraphic discoveries made along the Phoenician littoral a translation prepared in response to W.F. Albright's statement that 'all future investigations of the book of Psalms must deal intensively with the Ugaritic texts.' The translation tries to capture as much as possible the poetic qualities of the original Hebrew. Its attempt is to render accurately not only the meaning of the Psalms but also their poetic forms &amp; rhythms. This process of probing the original unearths some examples of passages previously mistranslated arriving at provocative readings.
language: English
title: Psalms I, 1-50
publisher: Doubleday & Co. (Garden City, NY)