The Book of Job in Form

A Literary Translation with Commentary
Erscheinungsjahr 2012
ISBN: 978-90-04-23158-0
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 58, 336 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 242 mm, Gewicht: 662 g

Reihe: Studia Semitica Neerlandica

The Book of Job in Form presents to the reader a platform for a personal and intensive encounter with a great work of art. Its bilingual centre offers the text in Hebrew and English, and shows the forty poems in their original form, in 412 strophes and 165 stanzas. The commentary points out how these proportions and the remarkable precision of the poet (who counted syllables on all text levels) affect the thematics of the book, so that the portrait of the hero can be redrawn; his stubbornly defended integrity meets vindication and his last words, generally misunderstood, require a positive understanding. The poetry and its slim framework in prose are a unified composition which deserves a synchronic approach.

Zielgruppe

Academic libraries, Bible scholars and students, educated laymen, readers of Hebrew.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fokkelman, Jan P

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Bibelwissenschaften Altes Testament: Exegese, Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien Heilige & Traditionstexte: Torah, Talmud, Mischna, Halacha

Über Autor(innen)

Fokkelman, Jan P
Jan Fokkelman, Ph.D. (1973), Leiden University, now retired, taught Hebrew and Aramaic between 1963 and 2001, and wrote two tetralogies: on the Books of Samuel and on Psalms + Job.