Keeping to our summer schedule, our next two sessions, Aug. 18 and Sept. 1, will involve reading The Book of Job. It will be interesting to compare different translations -- the King James Version is readily available, of course. Coincidentally, Robert Alter, whose translations of Genesis, Samuel and the Psalms have stood us in good stead in the past, has a new translation of Job, Proverbs and Ecclesiastes entitled The Wisdom Books. It can be pre-ordered from Amazon, but alas the release date is Oct. 11, 2010.
Here are Alter's other Old Testament translations on Amazon:
Reading classical works aloud in Sarasota, and talking about them.
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