Everett Fox
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Everett Fox is a scholar and translator of the Hebrew Bible. He is currently the Allen M. Glick Professor of Judaic and Biblical Studies at Clark University.
Fox is perhaps best known for his translation into English of the Torah. His translation is heavily influenced by the principles of Martin Buber and Franz Rosenzweig, who in 1962 completed their translation of the Old Testament into German. The main guiding principle of the work is that the sound of the Hebrew text should be translated as closely as possible. Instances of word play, puns, word repetition, alliteration, and other literary devices of sound are reproduced in English.
Fox's translation of the Torah was published in 1995 by Schocken Books (a division of Random House) as The Five Books of Moses. Fox continues to translate, and in 1999 published Give Us a King!, a translation of the books of Samuel.
Selected bibliography
- Give Us a King!: A New English Translation of the Book of Samuel, 1999
- The Five Books of Moses: A New English Translation with Commentary and Notes, 1995
