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Job - A New Translation (Hardcover)
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Job - A New Translation (Hardcover)
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This "bold new English translation" (Adam Kirsch, Wall Street
Journal) of Job by one of the world's leading biblical scholars
will reshape the way we read this canonical text "A work of
erudition with . . . a revolutionary twist."-James Parker, Atlantic
The book of Job has often been called the greatest poem ever
written. The book, in Edward Greenstein's characterization, is "a
Wunderkind, a genius emerging out of the confluence of two literary
streams" which "dazzles like Shakespeare with unrivaled vocabulary
and a penchant for linguistic innovation." Despite the text's
literary prestige and cultural prominence, no English translation
has come close to conveying the proper sense of the original. The
book has consequently been misunderstood in innumerable details and
in its main themes. Edward Greenstein's new translation of Job is
the culmination of decades of intensive research and painstaking
philological and literary analysis, offering a major
reinterpretation of this canonical text. Through his beautifully
rendered translation and insightful introduction and commentary,
Greenstein presents a new perspective: Job, he shows, was defiant
of God until the end. The book is more about speaking truth to
power than the problem of unjust suffering.
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