Everett Fox

Everett Fox

Everett Fox is a scholar and translator of the Hebrew Bible, a graudate of Brandeis University. He is currently the Allen M. Glick Professor of Judaic and Biblical Studies and director of the program in Jewish 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. Fox translated their "Scripture and Translation" into English (Weissbort and Eysteinsson 562). 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.

Fox served as a religious consultant on the making of the film "Prince of Egypt" [ http://www.clarku.edu/academiccatalog/facultybio.cfm?id=365] .

Fox is the husband of Jewish educator Rabbi Cherie Koller-Fox and father of three children, Akiva Fox, Leora Koller-Fox, and Ezra Fox.

elected publications

* "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
* "Scripture and Translation (translation of Buber and Rosenzweig, Die Schrift und ihre Verdeutschung) -- introduction", co-editor and co-translator with Lawrence Rosenwald. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 1994.
* Stalking the Younger Brother: Some Models for Understanding a Biblical Motif. "Journal for the Study of the Old Testament" 18:45-68. 1993.
*The Bible and Its World," in Barry Holtz, ed., "The Schocken Guide to Jewish Books." New York: Schocken Books. 1992.

References

Weissbort, Daniel and Astradur Eysteinsson. 2006. "Translation -- Theory and Practice: A Historical Reader", (pp. 562-568 about Fox). Oxford: Oxford University Press.

External links

* [http://www.clarku.edu/departments/foreign/facultybio.cfm?id=365 Everett Fox's homepage at Clark University]
* [http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=51422 Everett Fox at Schocken Books]
* [http://www.jhom.com/torah_portion/portion_shocken/shocken2.html]
* [http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2004/11/01/041101crbo_books?currentPage=2] Updike's review of translation by Alter and Fox


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