Strong As Death Is Love :The Song of Songs, Ruth, Esther, Jonah, and Daniel, A Translation with Commentary
Strong As Death Is Love :The Song of Songs, Ruth, Esther, Jonah, and Daniel, A Translation with Commentary
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8 February, 2016
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| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| ISBN13 | 9780393352252 |
| ISBN10 | 0393352250 |
| Number Of Pages | 256 |
| Item Weight | 259 g |
| Product Dimensions | 140 x 211 x 20 mm |
| Publisher / Reseller | WW Norton & Co |
| Format | paperback |
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"Encountering these books in this form—as ancient literature, laid out as poetry, with copious footnotes—allows you to be dazzled by their range, from the frank eroticism of the Song of Songs to the bucolic idyll of Esther and the downright weirdness of Daniel." -- New Statesman
"In each of the Biblical books in this volume a balance of explanation, translation and commentary is offered. In each of them the reader is made a partner in an adventure of scholarship and clarification which is both rare and exemplary." -- Eavan Boland - The Irish Times
"Robert Alter's continuing project of translating the Old Testament is perhaps one of the most important literary/religious endeavours of recent times...Alter adds new levels of richness and poetry to the text, while adding an illuminating commentary to untangle the struggles of time." -- Catholic Herald
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Author's Bio
Robert Alter's translation of the Hebrew Bible, the magnificent capstone to a lifetime of distinguished scholarly work, has won the PEN Center Literary Award for Translation. His immense achievements in scholarship ranging from the eighteenth-century European novel to contemporary Hebrew and American literature earned Alter the Robert Kirsch Award for Lifetime Achievement from the Los Angeles Times. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society, Alter is the Class of 1937 Professor of Hebrew and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley.