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.