
The Book of Job in Form
A Literary Translation with Commentary
Jan P. Fokkelman(Author)
Brill (Publisher)
Published on 7. June 2012
Book
Hardback
346 pages
978-90-04-23158-0 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Series
Language
English
Other
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Academic libraries, Bible scholars and students, educated laymen, readers of Hebrew.
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 242 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
662 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-23158-0 (9789004231580)
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Person
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.