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blue & gilt (spine bands) full cloth hardcover 8vo. (octavo). dustwrapper in protective plastic book jacket cover. fine cond. binding square & tight. covers clean. edges clean. contents free of markings. dustwrapper in near fine cond. tiny tear spine top, scratchy spot from old sticker, not price clipped (no price listed). nice clean vintage copy. no library markings, store stamps, stickers, bookplates, no names, inking, underlining, remainder markings etc~. sixth impression. hebrew open. xx+233p. authorities quoted. terms and abbreviations. index. hebrew text with english translation facing. extensive commentary. ancient literature. religion. philosophy. theology. scripture. old testament. tanakh. biblical studies. ~ from the introduction : "Profuse have been the praises heaped upon the Book of Job by men themselves richly endowed with spiritual perception. Tennyson and Carlyle spoke of it with bated breath: 'Great as the summer midnight, as the world with its seas and stars! There is nothing written, I think, in the Bible or out of it, of equal merit. . . . A noble Book; all men's Book. It is our first, oldest statement of the never~ending Problem~man's destiny, and God's ways with him here in this earth.' William Blake drew from its lines the inspiration for his mystic art. A. D. Lindsay, the Master of Balliol College, Oxford, finds in its 'rare combination of unflinching truthfulness and religious reverence,' which he links with the Ethic of Spinoza, 'no small part of the legacy of Israel.' Mary Ellen Chase calls it 'the incomparable literary masterpiece of our Bible.' And most recently, Robert Frost, America's leading poet, demonstrated anew the unimpaired vitality of its meanings in his Masque of Reason.". Seller Inventory # 1162306
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