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Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2011-10-03
Total Pages: 413
ISBN-13: 0393340538
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPresents a modern translation of the books of Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes in the Old Testament, providing an annotation and commentary for each verse.
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Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2010-10-11
Total Pages: 416
ISBN-13: 9780393080735
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst time in paperback: “One of the most ambitious literary projects of this or any age.”—Adam Kirsch, New Republic 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.
Author: Robert Alter
Publisher: W W Norton & Company Incorporated
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 394
ISBN-13: 9780393068122
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"An award-winning author and professor adds a new volume to his series of translations and commentary on the Hebrew Bible, focusing on the rational moral order described in Job, Proverbs and Ecclesiastes. "
Author: Roland E. Murphy
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Published: 1981-11-24
Total Pages: 204
ISBN-13: 1467421936
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMurphy sees three of the six books (Proverbs, Job, and Ecclesiastes) as being technically 'wisdom literature.' The others are either love poems or historical narrative that fit well within the context of the subject presented here. In this volume previous form-critical work is carefully evaluated, and the result is a thorough-going form-critical treatment of this part of the Old Testament. The work is enhanced by bibliographies for each Old Testament book and a glossary of general terms.
Author: Daniel J. Estes
Publisher: Baker Academic
Published: 2010-01-01
Total Pages: 448
ISBN-13: 1441201572
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis valuable resource introduces readers to the Old Testament books of wisdom and poetry--Job, Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, and Song of Songs--and helps them better understand each book's overall flow. Estes summarizes some of each book's key issues, offers an exposition of the book that interacts with major commentaries and recent studies, and concludes with an extensive bibliography. Now in paperback.
Author: Craig G. Bartholomew
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Published: 2014-06-04
Total Pages: 337
ISBN-13: 0830898174
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCraig G. Bartholomew and Ryan P. O'Dowd provide an informed introduction to the Old Testament wisdom books Proverbs, Ecclesiastes and Job. More than an introduction, however, this is a thoughtful consideration of the hermeneutical implications of this literature.
Author: Michael V. Fox
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published: 2010-04-01
Total Pages: 441
ISBN-13: 1608994961
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPervaded as it is with pessimism, paradox, and a multitude of contradictions, Ecclesiastes has long been one of the most difficult books of the Bible to understand. As this study demonstrates, however, it is precisely these contradictions that make Ecclesiastes so meaningful and so powerfully relevant to life in the world. By looking carefully at the language and thought of Ecclesiastes, as well as at its uses of contradictions in probing the meaning of life, Fox confronts the problems that have confounded interpretation of this biblical book. He shows that by using contradiction to tear down holistic claims of meaning and purpose in the world and rebuilding meaning in a local, restricted sense instead, the author of Ecclesiastes shapes a bold, honest-and ultimately uplifting-vision of life. Based on solid scholarly insight yet readable by all, Fox's work provides some of the best commentary available on this challenging section of Scripture.
Author: Robert Alter
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2009-09-22
Total Pages: 561
ISBN-13: 0393337049
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn his brilliant new translation of one of the Bibles most cherished and powerful books, Alter captures the simplicity, physicality, and coiled rhythmic power of the Hebrew, restoring the remarkable eloquence of these ancient poems.
Author: Robert Alter
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2008-10-17
Total Pages: 1115
ISBN-13: 0393070247
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"A modern classic....Thrilling and constantly illuminating."—Michael Dirda, Washington Post Book World Through a distinguished career of critical scholarship and translation, Robert Alter has equipped us to read the Hebrew Bible as a powerful, cohesive work of literature. In this landmark work, Alter's masterly translation and probing commentary combine to give contemporary readers the definitive edition of The Five Books. Winner of the PEN Center USA Literary Award for Translation and the Koret Jewish Book Award for Translation, a Newsweek Top 15 Book, Los Angeles Times Favorite Book, and San Francisco Chronicle Best Book.
Author: Robert Alter
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 1990-09
Total Pages: 700
ISBN-13: 9780674875319
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRediscover the incomparable literary richness and strength of a book that all of us live with an many of us live by. An international team of renowned scholars, assembled by two leading literary critics, offers a book-by-book guide through the Old and New Testaments as well as general essays on the Bible as a whole, providing an enticing reintroduction to a work that has shaped our language and thought for thousands of years.
