A New Translation And Exposition Of The Very Ancient Book Of Job Classic Reprint

Author : Oliver S. Halsted
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ISBN 13 : 9781331848387
Total Pages : 190 pages
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Download or read book The Book Called Job written by Oliver S. Halsted and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-19 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Book Called Job: From the Hebrew, With Foot Notes Of late years a new translation of the Scriptures from the Originals has been loudly called for: that is, a translation irrespective of our present English versions - the Douay, and Rheims Roman Catholic English versions, and of our authorized English version called the King James version. No such work has yet appeared. Having been engaged near twenty years, since I left office, in the study of the Scriptures in the languages in which they were written, and published a work a result of such study, I have prepared a translation of the Hebrew of the Book called Job into English. To show the variant renderings of some passages, the Roman Catholic Douay English of them, and the Diodati Italian of them rendered into English, are given in notes at the foot of the page; also the English of many passages, or parts of verses, as given in Gesenius's Hebrew and English Lexicon, the best beyond comparison; also in some passages, the English of them as given in the version of the Book of Job by George E. Noyes, the title page of which is: "A new translation of the Book of Job, with an Introduction, and notes chiefly explanatory;" also in some passages, the English of them as given in the version of Job published by the "American Bible Union," the title page of which is: "The Book of Job. From the original Hebrew on the basis of the Common and earlier English versions." A copy of which latter work was sent to me by a clergyman. The design of the writer of the Book of Job is well illustrated in an able Article upon it by "James Anthony Froude, M.A., Late Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford," in his "Short Studies on Great Subjects." He says: It is the most difficult of all the Hebrew compositions, many words occurring in it, and many thoughts, not to be found elewhere in the Bible. That there are many mythical and physical allusions scattered over the poem, which, in the sixteenth century there were positively no means of understanding, and perhaps, too, says he, there were mental tendencies in the translators themselves, which prevented them from adequately apprehending even the drift and spirit of the composition. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.