Book · 500 BC · Nonfiction

The Book of Psalms

Name: The Book of Psalms
Author: Robert Alter

W. W. Norton & Company · 560 pages

★ 6.7 editorial score

One hundred fifty poems of praise, terror, and rage at God, restored to their Hebrew compression by the translator Robert Alter. The shepherd psalm sits beside one ending with infants dashed on rocks.

Genre

Religious Lyric poetry

Medium

Scripture

Subject

Devotion Suffering Praise Faith

Setting

Jerusalem

Time

500 BCDepicts Old Testament Era

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