The Book of David: A New Story of the Spiritual Warrior and Leader Who Shaped Our Inner Consciousness - Softcover

Rosenberg, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0609802259 ISBN 13: 9780609802250

Verlag: Random House Inc, 1998

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The coauthor of The Book of J presents a fresh, brilliant portrayal of the life and times of the biblical figure of King David, exploring his impact on the culture and the consciousness of Western civilization. Reprint.

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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 best-seller 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.

Our ancestors read the Bible sure of its authors, of whom King David was perhaps most beloved. The Book of David illuminates the original story of David 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, often called the Court Historian or Western Civilization's first novelist, 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 original language of spirituality.

Seven years in the making, The Book of

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Random House Inc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1998
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0609802259
• ISBN 13: 9780609802250
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 288
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