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Title: A generally useful introduction
Review: This Cambridge introduction to five short books of the Bible is generally satisfying. Fuerst's commentary and analysis is stronger on Esther, Ruth, and Song of Songs than on the other three books. His thoughts on the Song of Songs are refreshingly unorthodox, and he rejects the straw men set up by scholars of various persuasions.There is a definite Christian bias which is understandable and is not troublesome even to a Jewish reader. The book relies heavily, however, on an already-existing translation of the Bible that in my view contains several errors of interpretation.
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