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Nonfiction · Religious

The Book of Psalms

Robert Alter
500 BC · 560 pages

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.

★ 6.7