Poetry and Prophecy: The Image of the Poet as a "Prophet", a Hero and an Artist in Modern Hebrew Poetry (Brill's Series in Jewish Studies): ... Hebrew Poetry: 31 (Brill's Jewish Studies) - Hardcover

Shoham, Reuven

9789004127395: Poetry and Prophecy: The Image of the Poet as a "Prophet", a Hero and an Artist in Modern Hebrew Poetry (Brill's Series in Jewish Studies): ... Hebrew Poetry: 31 (Brill's Jewish Studies)

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9004127399 ISBN 13: 9789004127395

Publisher: Brill, 2002

The book discusses the image of the prophet and the role of prophecy in Modern Hebrew Poetry. The first part of the book presents the prophetic archetypal biographies of prophets, heroes and artists in Hebrew and European mythologies. It also examines the historical facts which lead to the departure of the prophet from Hebrew literature following the destruction of the second temple. Finally, it addresses the necessity of reappearance of the prophet in the 18th and 19th centuries in Hebrew thought and literature and provides a short history of that reappearance in Haskala literature. The second part focuses upon three major "prophets poets": Haim N. Bialik, Avraham Shlonski and Uri Z. Greenberg. The book may be of interest to scholars of Literature, Judaism, Philosophy, Science of Religion, Anthropology, Folklore and Rhetoric.

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About the Author:

Reuven Shoham, Ph.D. (1979) in Hebrew Literature, University of Tel-Aviv, is Professor of Hebrew & Comparative Literature at University of Haifa and Oranim - Academic College of Education of the Kibbutz Movement. He has published extensively on Hebrew Literature and on the Prophetic Mode in Modern Hebrew Poetry.

Synopsis:

A discussion of the image of the prophet and the role of prophecy in modern Hebrew poetry. The first part of the work presents prophetic archetypal biographies of prophets, heroes and artists in Hebrew and European mythologies, and the second part focuses on three major "prophets poets".

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