The Wisdom Books: Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes: A Translation with Commentary pdf

罗伯特·阿尔特 是美国加州大学伯克利分校的希伯来语和比较文学教授，自 1967 年以来一直在那里任教。他于 2018 年出版了他的希伯来圣经译本。Robert Alter 获得了英语学士学位（哥伦比亚大学， 1957 年），并获得哈佛大学比较文学硕士学位（1958 年）和博士学位（1962 年）。 他的职业生涯始于 Commentary 的作家，多年来一直担任特约编辑。 他写了二十三本书，最近因翻译整本希伯来圣经而闻名。 他的演讲主题从圣经情节到卡夫卡的现代主义和希伯来文学不等。 Alter 的一项重要贡献是将字体场景引入当代学术希伯来圣经研究。

The Wisdom Books: Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes: A Translation with Commentary pdf 罗伯特·阿尔特

A magnificent new volume in Robert Alter’s award-winning, landmark translation of and commentary on the Hebrew Bible.

Here, in Robert Alter’s bold new translation, are some of the most magnificent works in world literature. The astounding poetry in the Book of Job is restored to its powerful ancient meanings and rhythms. The account of creation in its Voice from the Whirlwind is beautiful and incendiary—an unforgettable challenge to the place of man in the universe. The serene fatalism that construes life as ephemeral and without purpose suffuses Ecclesiastes with a quiet beauty. The pithy maxims of Proverbs impart a worldly wisdom that is still sound and satirically shrewd.

Each of these books conveys and undermines 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 Bible. In Alter’s translation they regain the energy and force of the original, enhancing their ongoing relevance to the lives of modern readers.