The Book of David - Hardcover

Rosenberg, David

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0517708000 ISBN 13: 9780517708002

Verlag: Crown Publications, 1997

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The coauthor of The Book of J illuminates the life and times of the ancient biblical King David, detailing the inspirational leadership skills, poetic voice, and insights that have shaped the values and conscience of western civilization. 40,000 first printing.

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David Rosenberg is the leading translator of biblical poetry and poetic prose in our time. He received the PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Prize for 1992, the first major literary award for a biblical translation. The former editor-in-chief of the Jewish Publication Society, Rosenberg's poetry and essays have appeared in The Nation, The New Republic, Harper's, The Paris Review, Five Fingers Review, and in the recent cutting-edge anthology Primary Trouble. Rosenberg has also created a bond between writers today and the Bible's writers in three unique anthologies he conceived and edited: Congregation (1987), Communion (1996), and Genesis: As It Is Written (1996)

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id Rosenberg and Harold Bloom published the audacious New York Times bestseller The Book of J, which identified one of the earliest writers of the Bible to be a woman. Now David Rosenberg returns with The Book of David, which redefines the meaning of spirituality in our time. In this book, another great writer, often called the Court Historian or Western civilization's first novelist, is given back to us, and in place of conventional myths we find inspired images of who we are today.

Our ancestors read the Bible sure of its authors, of whom King David was perhaps most beloved. Now the original story of David is lifted out of the surrounding material so that it becomes, once again, our founding narrative of spiritual consciousness. Based on an exhilarating translation that uncovers the original sources, we behold a radiant writer who stands behind King David, creating the way we talk to and think about God. His sublime creation reinvents our idea of the spiritual warrior as well as the ori

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• Verlag: Crown Publications
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1997
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0517708000
• ISBN 13: 9780517708002
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 272
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