The Song of Songs
Author
Original Work
Translators
Foreword / Afterword
Robert Alter
Annotations
Robert Alter
Language
Year
1998
Publisher
Country
United States
Pages
253
ISBN
9780520213302
Next to Genesis, no book in the Hebrew Bible has had a stronger influence on Western literature than the Song of Songs. This attractive and exuberant edition helps to explain much of its power, while leaving its mystery intact. -- Alicia Ostriker, The New York Review of Books. Quite simply the best version in the English language. Its poetic voice, intimate, dignified, and informed by meticulous scholarship, carries us into the Eden of the original Hebrew text: a world in which the sexual awakening of two unmarried lovers is celebrated with a sensuality and a richness of music that are thrilling beyond words. -- Stephen Mitchell.— Google Books
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