The Book of Job: A New Translation with In-Depth Commentary [Paperback]

Robert D. Sacks has ventured to render the bold and vivid poetic imagery of the Hebrew original in English prose that is equally bold and equally vivid???while remaining solidly grounded in the nuances of meaning and diversity of resonances present in the Hebrew text. The result is a translation startling in its power and insight, opening the way to a deeper understanding of this profound and unsettling book. Includes numerous notes and a separate commentary.Robert D. Sacks has rendered the bold and vivid poetic imagery of the Hebrew original in English prose that is equally bold and equallyvivid???while remaining solidly grounded in the nuances of meaning anddiversity of resonances present in the Hebrew text.The result is a translation often startling in its power and insight, openingthe way to a deeper undertanding of this profound and unsettling book.Numerous notes provide enlightening but unobtrusive explanation of manyof the translator???s choices. In a separate chapter-by-chapter commentary,Sacks offers sustained original reflection on the several characters, theirintentions, and their core beliefs.Translator???s Introduction xi Translator???s Notes xiii The Book of Job Translation 1 Discussion 97 Works Cited 305 Index 307 About Robert D. Sacks 311Robert D. Sacks received his undergraduate education at St. John???s College, ??Annapolis, ??Maryland (B.A. 1954) and his graduate education at The Johns Hopkins University (Ph.D. 1961). He also studied at the Ecole des Langues Orientales ??Vivantes in Paris, ??Hebrew University, ??Jerusalem, and the University of ??Chicago. Sacks has taught at St. John???s College since 1960, at both the ??Annapolis and the Santa Fe Campuses; he has been a visiting ??faculty member at Middlebury College in Vermont and St. Mary???s College in California.Sacks is the author of A Commentary on the Book of ??Genesis ??(Edwin Mellen Press, 1990) and Beginning Biblical Hebrew: ??Intentionality and Grammar (Kafir Yaroq Books, 2008)ló.