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 creation account in its Voice from the Whirlwind is beautiful and incendiary.
By contrast, a serene fatalism suffuses Ecclesiastes with a quiet beauty, and the pithy maxims of Proverbs impart a worldly wisdom that is satirically shrewd. Each of these books addresses 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.
| ISBN: | 9780393340532 |
| Publication date: | 28th October 2011 |
| Author: | Robert Alter |
| Publisher: | W.W. Norton and Company an imprint of W. W. Norton & Company |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 394 pages |
| Genres: |
Christianity |
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 Wisdom Books features in the following genres: Christianity
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The Wisdom Books was written by Robert Alter and published by W.W. Norton and Company an imprint of W. W. Norton & Company
The Wisdom Books has 394 pages
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