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The Book of the Twelve Prophets

The Book of the Twelve Prophets

Slavitt, David R.

Hardcover

Religion General JudaismBible Studies

ISBN10: 0195132149
ISBN13: 9780195132144
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: Nov 25 1999
Pages: 160
Weight: 0.76
Height: 0.79 Width: 5.79 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
This is a glittering new translation of the portion of the Hebrew Bible known as the Book of the Twelve Prophets, or the Twelve Minor Prophets. In the Bible, the books of the prophets are arranged in rough order of length. The present group of writings thus appears after the so-called major prophets (Isaiah, Jeremiah, and Ezekiel), and includes the much shorter texts of Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, Micah, Nahum, Habbakuk, Zephaniah, Haggai, Zechariah, and Malachi. At the time when all biblical books were written on scrolls, these twelve brief prophetic texts were traditionally written on a single scroll, and so came to be considered a single book. Minor with respect to length only, they are from the literary point of view some of the most interesting texts in the Bible--passionate, visionary, and written with genuine literary sophistication. David Slavitt's brilliant modern translation breathes fresh life into these powerful ancient texts.

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