The Wisdom Books: Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes: A Translation with CommentaryW. W. Norton & Company, 3 de out. de 2011 - 416 páginas First 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. |
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answer Aramaic beasts beginning better biblical Hebrew biblical poetry blameless Book of Job Book of Proverbs bread breath Canaanite mythology Chapter clause construe context counsel crime darkness death disaster discerning dolt earth Elihu Eliphaz elsewhere emendation evil eyes fear flesh folly fool frame-story friends God’s hand heart heavens Hebrew says Hebrew verb herding the wind human idea innocence interpreters Job poet Job's justice keep King James Version light lips literal sense look LORD man’s Masoretic text reads means metaphor metonymy mouth narrative night noun parallelism path perhaps person phrase plural poem poetic poor proverbs Psalms Qohelet rebuke reference reproof righteous sated scribal second verset Septuagint Shaddai Sheol sluggard speak speech term things tion toil translation follows turn understand upright verb verse wealth wicked wisdom Wisdom literature wise woman womb words wrath Yamm