The work is as much a scholarly guide as a translation. Roughly one-third of the text consists of :
While the full three-volume set is a copyrighted commercial work, several academic and preparatory excerpts are available online in PDF or digital formats: The Art of Biblical Narrative
He avoids abstract theological terms, preferring words that reflect the physical world (e.g., using "the human" for ha Adam ). The Commentary Experience
(frequent use of the word "and") to mimic the original Hebrew sentence structure, even when it feels less idiomatic in English [11]. Extensive Commentary