A Literary Bible: an Original Translation

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Preface xi; Genesis 5; Exodus 101; Numbers 127; Samuel 141; Isaiah 181; Jeremiah 269; Zechariah 279; Jonah 289; Psalms 307; Lamentations 365; Song of Songs 383; Job 393; Ecclesiastes 493; Ruth 551; Esther 575; Judith 589; Daniel 615; Ezra 625; Epilogue: How the Bible Came About Telling, Seeing, Writing: The Division in Three Parts of the Hebrew Bible 635; Afterword: How this Book Came About Getting Through to the Writer 659; Index to Chapter and Verse 673; Acknowledgments 679.;Whether rendering the Bible as wondrous or as strangely familiar, David Rosenberg's magisterial translation forces us to ask again--and at last in literary terms--why the Bible remains a crucial foundation of our culture. Until today, translators have presented a homogeneous Bible in uniform style--even as the various books within it were written by different authors, in diverse genres and periods, stretching over many centuries. Now, Rosenberg's artful translation restores what has been left aside: the essence of imaginative creation in the Bible. In A Literary Bible, Rosenberg presents for the.