Ebook {Epub PDF} The Wisdom Books: Job Proverbs and Ecclesiastes by Robert Alter

The Wisdom Books: Job, Proverbs, And Ecclesiastes: A Translation With Commentary by Alter, Robert Presents a modern translation of the books of Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes in the Old Testament, providing an annotation and commentary for each verse. The Wisdom Books: Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes: A Translation with Commentary. Alter, Robert. Limited Stock Title: This is a 'Last Chance' title. Once we run out of stock this title will no longer be available on our www.doorway.ru: W.W. Norton and Company, Inc.  · The prolific Alter (Hebrew comparative literature, Univ. of California, Berkeley; The Five Books of Moses: A Translation with Commentary) has provided a magnificent work of translation and commentary on the Old Testament books known as wisdom literature. In the books of Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes, we find evocative poetic statements on the value of life, the role of suffering, and Brand: Robert Alter.

Harold Kasimow Department of Religious Studies Grinnell College The Wisdom Books: Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes, by Robert Alter. New York: W. W. Norton, pp. $ "Of making many books there is no end." So Robert Alter renders Qohelet The same might. The Wisdom Books, Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes. A Translation with Commentary by Robert Alter. Robert Alter is, with James Kugel, one of the two leading writer / translators of the Hebrew Bible who write to a general, lay audience who simply wish to read parts of the Old Testament as narrative literature. cries Wisdom in the book of Proverbs. Then in Job comes the anguished voice of the questioner, earnest enough to seek answers, honest enough to doubt easy ones. In Ecclesiastes the chastened tone of the Preacher warns of the vanity of all life under the sun.

The prolific Alter (Hebrew comparative literature, Univ. of California, Berkeley; The Five Books of Moses: A Translation with Commentary) has provided a magnificent work of translation and commentary on the Old Testament books known as wisdom literature. In the books of Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes, we find evocative poetic statements on the value of life, the role of suffering, and God's place in a moral order that often seems neither just nor ordered. Well, whether the word of God or not, the books of the 'tanakh' are ALSO literature, which characteristic structures and their own technique. Robert Alter 'The Five Books of Moses' and 'The Psalms', Robert Alter now gives us 'Job', 'Proverbs' and 'Ecclesiastes'. The Wisdom Books: Job, Proverbs, And Ecclesiastes: A Translation With Commentary by Alter, Robert Presents a modern translation of the books of Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes in the Old Testament, providing an annotation and commentary for each verse.