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The Wisdom Books

Door Robert Alter

The Wisdom Books
CategorieReligie & Theologie
Boeknummer#340079
TitelThe Wisdom Books: Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes: A Translation with Commentary
AuteurAlter, Robert
BoektypeGebonden hardcover met stofomslag
UitgeverijNew York/London : W.W. Norton & Company
Jaar van uitgave2010
ISBN100393068129
ISBN139780393068122
TaalEngels
BeschrijvingOriginal boards, gilt lettered spine dust jacket, 8vo.
Samenvatting Here, in Robert Alter's bold new translation, are some of the most magnificent works in world literature. The astounding poetry in the Book of Job is restored to its powerful ancient meanings and rhythms. The account of creation in its Voice from the Whirlwind is beautiful and incendiary-an unforgettable challenge to the place of man in the universe. The serene fatalism that construes life as ephemeral and without purpose suffuses Ecclesiastes with a quiet beauty. The pithy maxims of Proverbs impart a worldly wisdom that is still sound and satirically shrewd. Each of these books conveys and undermines the universal wisdom that the righteous thrive and the wicked suffer in a rational moral order; together they are essential to the ancient canon that is the Hebrew Bible. In Alter's translation they regain the energy and force of the original, enhancing their ongoing relevance to the lives of modern readers.
Pagina's393
ConditieRedelijk — Markings with ballpoint pen in margin (in the beginning).
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