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Amos Oz - Writer, Activist, Icon by Robert Alter
Category: Reference | Series: Jewish Lives Ser.
An intimate portrait illuminating the life and work of Amos Oz, the award-winning Israeli writer and activist Amos Oz (1939-2018) was one of Israel's most prolific and prominent writers, as well as a regular contender for the Nobel Prize for Literature. He was the author of dozens of novels, essay col ...Show more
Strong as Death is Love - The Song of Songs, Ruth, Esther, Jonah, and Daniel - A Translation with Commentary by Robert Alter
Category: Non-Fiction
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 stag ...Show more
The Art of Bible Translation by Robert Alter
Category: Non-Fiction
An award-winning biblical translator reflects on the art of capturing the literary power of the Bible in English In this brief book, award-winning biblical translator and acclaimed literary critic Robert Alter offers a personal and passionate account of what he learned about the art of Bible translatio ...Show more
The Book of Psalms: A Translation with Commentary by Robert Alter
Category: Religion
Captures the simplicity, the physicality and the coiled rhythmic power of the Hebrew, restoring the remarkable eloquence of Psalms.
The Poetry of Yehuda Amichai by Alter, Yehuda Amichai; Edited by Robert
Category: Poetry & Plays | Series: Copenhagen Trilogy Ser.
The largest English-language collection to date from Israel's finest poet Few poets have demonstrated as persuasively as Yehuda Amichai why poetry matters. One of the major poets of the twentieth century, Amichai created remarkably accessible poems, vivid in their evocation of the Israeli landscape ...Show more
The Wisdom Books: Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes: A Translation with Commentary by Robert Alter
Category: Non-Fiction
In this new volume of Robert Alter's award-winning translation of and commentary on the Hebrew Bible are some of the most magnificent works in world literature. In this bold new translation, the astounding poetry in the Book of Job is restored to its powerful ancient meanings and rhythms. The serene fat ...Show more
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