A literary Bible / an original translation by David Rosenberg. - Berkeley : Counterpoint : Distributed by Publishers Group West, 2009. - xiii, 680 p. ; 24 cm.

Includes index.

Telling: the Torah -- Genesis -- Exodus -- Numbers -- Seeing: the Prophets -- Samuel -- Isaiah -- Jeremiah -- Zechariah -- Jonah -- Writing: the Scrolls -- Psalms -- Lamentations -- Song of Songs -- Job -- Ecclesiastes -- Ruth -- Esther -- Judith -- Daniel -- Ezra -- Epilogue: how the Bible came about -- Telling, seeing, writing : the division in three parts of the Hebrew Bible -- Afterword: how this book came about -- Getting through to the writer.

Experience each book of the Bible as if it were written for our time. 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.

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Bible.--Old Testament.
Biblia. --A.T.

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