This highly acclaimed new translation of the first book of the Bible by Professor Alter of the University of California, Berkeley, was issued simultaneously with the scholarly trade edition, published by W. W. Norton & Company in 1996. The Norton Genesis is included with the Arion edition so that the reader will have access to Alter's copious notes on the text and his decisions in translating. The Arion Genesis provides the Hebrew text from Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia, printed from type set in Israel. The frontispiece print by Michael Mazur evokes the creation, as chaos congeals into recognizable forms.