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The Book of Job

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The theme of "The Book of Job" is nothing less than human suffering and the transcendence of it: it pulses with moral energy, outrage, and spiritual insight. Now, "The Book of Job" has been rendered into English by the eminent translator and scholar Stephen Mitchell, whose versions of Rilke, Israeli poetry, and the "Tao Te Ching" have been widely praised. This is the first time ever that the Hebrew verse of Job has been translated into verse in any language, ancient or modern, and the result is a triumph.

Genre
mythologymyths and folklore
Themes
religionjewishspiritualityphilosophybible
Setting
antiquity
Subject
philosophyhistoryreligion
Audience
adult
Length
short · 176 pages
Form
poetryshort stories

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