Strong As Death Is Love: The Song of Songs, Ruth, Esther, Jonah, and Daniel

Strong As Death Is Love: The Song of Songs, Ruth, Esther, Jonah, and Daniel pdf

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Robert Alter

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Robert Bernard Alter è un professore americano di letteratura ebraica e comparata presso l'Università della California, Berkeley, dove insegna dal 1967. Ha pubblicato la sua traduzione della Bibbia ebraica nel 2018. Robert Alter ha conseguito la laurea in inglese (Columbia University, 1957), e il suo master (1958) e il dottorato (1962) presso l'Università di Harvard in letteratura comparata. Ha iniziato la sua carriera come scrittore a Commentary, dove è stato per molti anni un redattore collaboratore. Ha scritto ventitré libri ed è noto di recente per la sua traduzione dell'intera Bibbia ebraica. Tiene conferenze su argomenti che vanno dagli episodi biblici al modernismo di Kafka e alla letteratura ebraica. Uno dei contributi importanti di Alter è l'introduzione della scena tipo negli studi biblici ebraici contemporanei.

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Strong As Death Is Love: The Song of Songs, Ruth, Esther, Jonah, and Daniel pdf da Robert Alter

" Alter has given fresh life to some of the most beloved . . . books in our heritage."—Philadelphia Inquirer

The Song of Songs; Ruth; Esther; Jonah; and Daniel offer readers a range of pleasures not usually associated with the Bible. As distant in time from the Five Books of Moses as Updike is from Shakespeare, these Late Biblical books are innovative, entertaining literary works. Women often stand center stage. The Song of Songs is a celebration of young love, frankly sensuous, with no reference to God or covenant. It offers some of the most beautiful love poems of the ancient world. The story of Queen Esther's shrewd triumph is also a secular entertainment, with clear traces of farce and sly sexual comedy. The character of Ruth embodies the virtues of loyalty, love, and charity in a harmonious world. Enigma replaces harmony in Daniel's feverish night dreams. The apocalyptic strangeness of Daniel echoes in works from the New Testament's Book...

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