Bücher von Richard J. Clifford

Through translation, technical notes, and insightful commentary, Richard Clifford sheds new understanding on Proverbs. By focusing on the rhetoric of Proverbs, Clifford demonstrates how the book fosters a lifelong search for wisdom, and enables readers to see how the instructions and sayings are concerned with contemporary issues...

This second volume completes Richard Clifford's Commentary on the Psalms. The richimagery of the Psalms has guided and molded pray-ers since ancient times. As we seekto understand the threads and colors of the Psalms, Clifford helps us see theirinner dramatic logic, how they organize the experience and desires of the pray-er, and how they seek to move us. His primary concern is to help readers see the patternand progression within the Psalms, while attending to their complex, evocativenature.