The Wisdom Books Alter Robert
The Wisdom Books Alter Robert Here in Robert Alter's bold new translation are some of the most magnificent works in world literature. The creation account in its Voice from the Whirlwind is beautiful…
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The Wisdom Books Alter Robert
Here in Robert Alter's bold new translation are some of the most magnificent works in world literature. The creation account in its Voice from the Whirlwind is beautiful and incendiary. The astounding poetry in the Book of Job is restored to its powerful ancient meanings and rhythms.
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 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.
Five Books of Moses Alter Robert
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