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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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Availability:In StockContributor:Robert Alter (Translator)Publish date:2016-02-08Release date:2/8/2016Pages:256
Language:EnglishPublisher:W. W. Norton & CompanyISBN-13:9780393352252ISBN-10:393352250UPC:9780393352252Book Category:Religion, BiblesBook Subcategory:Biblical Commentary, Biblical Criticism & Interpretation, Other English TranslationsBook Topic:Old TestamentSize:8.20 x 5.40 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.4497Product ID:SC6PCKNS1X
The Song of Songs; Ruth; Esther; Jonah; and Daniel offer readers a range of pleasures not usually associated with the Bible. As distant in time from the Five Books of Moses as Updike is from Shakespeare, these Late Biblical books are innovative, entertaining literary works. Women often stand center stage. The Song of Songs is a celebration of young love, frankly sensuous, with no reference to God or covenant. It offers some of the most beautiful love poems of the ancient world. The story of Queen Esther's shrewd triumph is also a secular entertainment, with clear traces of farce and sly sexual comedy. The character of Ruth embodies the virtues of loyalty, love, and charity in a harmonious world. Enigma replaces harmony in Daniel's feverish night dreams. The apocalyptic strangeness of Daniel echoes in works from the New Testament's Book of Revelations to the lyrics of Bob Dylan. And Jonah, the tale of a giant fish who, on God's command, swallows the prophet and imprisons him in his dark wet innards for three days, ends with a question that lingers, unanswered, leaving the reader to ponder the many limitations of humankind.

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Language:EnglishPublisher:W. W. Norton & CompanyISBN-13:9780393352252ISBN-10:393352250UPC:9780393352252Book Category:Religion, BiblesBook Subcategory:Biblical Commentary, Biblical Criticism & Interpretation, Other English TranslationsBook Topic:Old TestamentSize:8.20 x 5.40 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.4497Product ID:SC6PCKNS1X
Alter, Robert: - 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.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

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