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Who Wrought the Bible?: Unveiling the Bibles Aesthetic Secrets
Yair Mazor
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Description for Who Wrought the Bible?: Unveiling the Bibles Aesthetic Secrets
Hardcover. Approaching the Hebrew Bible as a work of literary art, this book examines its many genres, including historical narratives, poetic narratives, poetry, psalms, and songs. It features line drawings from a late nineteenth-century Bible that illustrate many of the most famous scenes in scripture, suggesting another aesthetic layer of the text. Num Pages: 232 pages, 32 b/w illustrations, 20 charts. BIC Classification: 2CSJ; DSB; HRCG. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 431.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of Wisconsin Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
232
Place of Publication
Wisconsin, United States
ISBN
9780299228408
SKU
V9780299228408
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About Yair Mazor
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 ... Read more
Reviews for Who Wrought the Bible?: Unveiling the Bibles Aesthetic Secrets
A tour de force.... 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 ""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 ... Read more