Who Wrought the Bible?: Unveiling the Bible's Aesthetic Secrets
Autor Yair Mazoren Limba Engleză Paperback – 29 noi 2008
Approaching the Hebrew Bible as a work of literary art, Yair Mazor examines its many genres, including historical narratives, poetic narratives, poetry, psalms, and songs. Line drawings from a late nineteenth-century Bible illustrate many of the most famous scenes in scripture, suggesting another aesthetic layer of the text. By breaking the Bible into constituent parts, Mazor traces the range of its writing styles, reconfiguring the work as a literary collage and an artistic masterpiece. He shows how the aesthetics of the texts that comprise the Bible serve its over-arching message, and he develops a literary portrait of its authors by decoding their cryptic aesthetic devices.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780299228446
ISBN-10: 0299228444
Pagini: 232
Ilustrații: 32 b-w illus., 20 charts
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.32 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: University of Wisconsin Press
Colecția University of Wisconsin Press
ISBN-10: 0299228444
Pagini: 232
Ilustrații: 32 b-w illus., 20 charts
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.32 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: University of Wisconsin Press
Colecția University of Wisconsin Press
Recenzii
“Mazor has brought his considerable literary acumen to bear on the foundation of all Hebrew literature, the Hebrew Bible. His study is a tour de force of a specialist in the literary arts, and will be a provocative addition to the ongoing process of applying literary criteria, criticism, and theoretical tools to the most cherished work in Hebrew. Mazor has skillfully taken his readers on an aesthetic voyage whose end product is a revelation of the Bible’s sublimity.”— Stephen Katz, author of The Centrifugal Novel: S. Y. Agnon’s Poetics of Composition
“The originality of Yair Mazor’s contribution to the field of biblical literary criticism lies in his erudition and mastery of both biblical studies and literary criticism, a rare combination. He is able to integrate modern day, up-to-date literary critical tools with first-hand knowledge of the Hebrew Bible.”—Moshe Pelli, author of The Shadow of Death: Letters in Flames
“To analyze, reflect, and understand ‘aesthetic and artistic characteristics of the Hebrew Bible’ is an important desideratum in Biblical Studies and one admirably fulfilled by Yair Mazor. He invites the reader not only to read about biblical aesthetics but to confront the process itself.”—Zev Garber, editor and contributor, Mel Gibson's Passion: The Film, the Controversy, and its Implications
Notă biografică
Yair Mazor is professor of Hebrew and Biblical literature and was the first director of the Center for Jewish Studies and the Certificate Program in Jewish Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. His many books include The Poetry of Asher Reich: Portrait of a Hebrew Poet and Pain, Pining, and Pine Trees: Contemporary Hebrew Poetry, both available from the University of Wisconsin Press.
Cuprins
Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Policy of Transliteration
1. The Importance of Being Earnest About Definitions: What Is Art? What Is Literature? What Is Biblical Literature? And What Is the Science of Literature and Biblical Literature?
2. One More Mandatory Introduction: How Does the Aesthetic Mechanism of the Biblical Text Operate? How Does It Serve the Ideological Message Delivered by the Biblical Text?
3. What You See Is Not What You Get: When Unity Masquerades as Disarray; Psalm 23: The Lord is My Shepherd or is He My Host?; Cain, Abel, Lemech and even Adam and Eve: Who Lumped Them Together in One Place and Why?
4. Abraham versus Abraham, the Real Story of the Ageda Story: Or, One God + One Agony = Two Sacrificial Lambs
5. Psalm 24: Sense and Sensibility in Biblical Composition
6. The Song of Songs, or The Story of Stories? Song of Songs between Genre and Unity
7. "Cherchez La Femme," or, Sex, Lies and the Bible . . . Anti-Feminism in the Bible
8. Rewarding Aesthetic Excavation in Biblical Literary Site: Poetic Devices of Abraham's Service (Genesis, 17–19)
9. When Job and Genesis Visit Psalm 139, and When Aesthetics Is Harnessed to Psychological Characterization
10. Hosea, 5.1–3: Between Compositional Rhetoric and Rhetorical Composition
Notes
Index
Descriere
Approaching the Hebrew Bible as a work of literary art, Yair Mazor examines its many genres, including historical narratives, poetic narratives, poetry, psalms, and songs.