Book of J - Softcover

Bloom, Harold

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0802141919 ISBN 13: 9780802141910

Verlag: Grove Press, 2004

Inhaltsangabe

J is the title that scholars ascribe to the nameless writer they believe is responsible for the text, written between 950 and 900 BCE, on which Genesis, Exodus and Numbers is based. In The Book of J, Bloom and Rosenberg draw the J text out of the surrounding material and present it as the seminal classic that it is.
In addition to Rosenberg's original translations, Bloom argues in several essays that "J" was not a religious writer but a fierce ironist and a woman living in the court of King Solomon. He also argues that J is a writer on par with Homer, Shakespeare and Tolstoy.
Bloom also offers historical context, a discussion of the theory of how the different texts came together to create the Bible, and translation notes. Rosenberg's translations from the Hebrew bring J's stories to life and reveal her towering originality and grasp of humanity.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Grove Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2004
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0802141919
• ISBN 13: 9780802141910
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 352
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