Pre-Owned The Wisdom Books: Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes : A Translation with Commentary (Hardcover) 9780393068122

from stillatim

Just to be clear, I'm rating the book. Alter's comments are wonderful, Job is a fascinating poem, Ecclesiastes surely one of the great splenetic explosions in world literature. The first nine chapters of Proverbs are fine, there's some drama there as a father tries to convince his son not to be a...

from nbmars

Robert Alter is a professor of Hebrew and comparative literature at the University of California, Berkeley. As of this writing, his translation of the entire Hebrew Bible (the Old Testament) has been completed but not yet published. However, he had published his translation of the so-called Wisdo...

from nbmars

Robert Alter is a professor of Hebrew and comparative literature at the University of California, Berkeley. As of this writing, his translation of the entire Hebrew Bible (the Old Testament) has been completed but not yet published. However, he had published his translation of the so-called Wisdo...