The Book of J

David Rosenberg, Harold Bloom0802110509, 9780802110503

Книга The Book of J The Book of J Книги Иностранные языки Автор: David Rosenberg, Harold Bloom Год издания: 1991 Формат: pdf Издат.:Vintage Страниц: 352 Размер: 6,3 ISBN: 0679736247 Язык: Английский0 (голосов: 0) Оценка:Scholars agree that the first strand in Genesis, Exodus, and Numbers was written by an author whom they call J, who lived in the tenth century before Christ. In The Book of J, accompanying David Rosenberg’s startling new translation, America’s greatest literary critic, Harold Bloom, asserts that J was a writer of the stature of Homer, Shakespeare, and Tolstoy and puts forth the revolutionary idea that J was very likely a woman.J was a genius with unmatched powers of irony and characterization, as shown in her unforgettable and very human portraits of Abram and Sarai, Rebecca, Jacob and Rachel, Joseph, Tamar, and Moses — and, above all, God, or Yahweh. The Book of F reclaims the Bible’s first and greatest author and presents us with the full grandeur of her creation.

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Table of contents :
Contents……Page 6
Acknowledgments……Page 8
Preface on Names and Terms……Page 12
Chronology……Page 16
INTRODUCTION……Page 18
ENFOLDING AN AUTHOR……Page 26
IMAGING AN AUTHOR……Page 33
DAVID: J AND THE COURT HISTORIAN……Page 45
TRANSLATING J……Page 58
The Book of J……Page 66
Commentary……Page 182
EDEN AND AFTER……Page 184
ABRAM……Page 202
JACOB……Page 218
TAMAR……Page 229
JOSEPH……Page 233
MOSES……Page 250
IN THE WILDERNESS……Page 271
After Commentary……Page 280
THE BOOK OF J AND TORAH……Page 282
THE REPRESENTATION OF YAHWEH……Page 288
THE PSYCHOLOGY OF YAHWEH……Page 305
THE BLESSING: EXILES, BOUNDARIES, JEALOUSIES……Page 316
CONCLUSION: THE GREATNESS OF J……Page 325
Translator’s Appendixes……Page 332
Notes on the Translation……Page 334
Biblical Sources……Page 346