Alexander Jones

The Jerusalem Bible Salvador Dali Edition Volume Two the Wisdom Books Through the Minor Prophets Alexander Jones

Publisher Marketing: The Jerusalem Bible is a re-translation of all of the original texts of the Bible from Hebrew into modern English. This is the Salvador Dali edition of the The Jerusalem Bible. The Illustrations are by Salvador Dali in Italy. In order to reprint this work in soft cover and at lower cost it has been necessary to divide this book in three parts because the original book is 1786 pages, far too long for a soft cover book. The most a soft cover book can normally hold is about 750 pages and many soft cover printers refuse to print a book longer than that. This is the second volume which is The Wisdom Books through the Minor Prophets, pages 629 to page 1340. Volume Two starts with the Book of Job which all authorities agree is the most profound and philosophical book in the Bible. It explains that good men are sometimes published and bad men are sometimes rewarded. The rest of the Old Testament of the Bible mostly recounts events of history. It is only in the Book of Job that the philosophy behind the religion becomes apparent. Volume Two also includes books which Martin Luther classified as Apocrypha. These are books which are accepted by some Christians and Jews but not by others, such as the Book of Judith and the Book of Tobit. Volume Two concludes with Malachi 3:6, page number 1340 here, which says that any Jewish man who marries or has children with a non-Jewish woman must be driven away, because he has committed a grave crime which has contaminated the race. The most important part of Volume Two is the last paragraph, where it says "Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the great and terrible day of Jehovah come." This is believed by Christians to predict the coming of Jesus Christ and, following that, the Armageddon and the Apocalypse, the end of the world. Contributor Bio:  Dali, Salvador Salvador Dali was born in 1904 in Figueres, Spain. In his teens, he exhibited his work at home and in the town's municipal theater before leaving for Madrid's Academy of Arts. In his last year there, he was expelled for announcing that none of the faculty was competent to judge his work. After moving to Paris, he befriended Pablo Picasso and Andre Breton, moved in with the woman who would become his wife of nearly 50 years (though she was Paul Eluard's wife when he met her) and began work on the paintings for which became best known, such as "The Persistence of Memory," which he described as "hand-painted dream photographs." Over the course of his career, he also made sculpture, designed jewelry, illustrated books and collaborated with filmmakers such as Bunuel and Hitchcock. The most famous of all the Surrealists, he died in Figueres in 1989.