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This unusual book in the well-known Library of Literary Criticism series surveys the full range of literary commentary on the Hebrew Bible from ancient times to the present. Selections excerpted from hundred of books and articles cover nearly one hundred topics organized into four The Hebrew Bible in General, Literary Features, The Texts, and Apocrypha. Here are writings by classical, early rabbinic, early Christian, medieval, early modern, and contemporary authors on such topics as prosody, imagery, and wordplay, as well as analyses of individual books and stories of the Hebrew Bible, such as Job, Ruth, the Binding of Isaac, David and Goliath. In addition to materials that have been previously translated from Arabic, Greek, Latin, and Russian, many selections have been rendered into English from Hebrew, French, German, and Spanish expressly for this volume. Many great writers on the Bible as literature who have barely been known outside small circles ---for example, the modern Hebrew poet Jacob Fichman -- appear here for the first time before a wide audience. There are also excerpts by great world Goethe, Heine, Coleridge, Melville, Tolstoy, D. H. Lawrence, Martin Buber. All the m

Author

and edited by Alex Preminger and Edward L. Greenstein

Publisher

Frederick Ungar A Book

Published

1986

Language

EN

ISBN

9780804432665

Subjects

Religion, Christian, Bible