"Sixty-six colleagues, friends, and former students of Edward L. Greenstein present essays honoring him upon his retirement. Throughout Greenstein's half-century career he demonstrated expertise in a host of areas astonishing in its breadth and depth, and each of the essays in t…
This book is the product of fifty years of scholarship. It consists of two main parts: the first is an essay on the history of interpreting the book of Job in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. The second part is a commentary on the book.
"The book of Job has often been called the greatest poem ever written. The book, in Edward Greensteins characterization, is a Wunderkind, a genius emerging out of the confluence of two literary streams which dazzles like Shakespeare with unrivaled vocabulary and a penchant for l…