The Lion and the Ass: Reading Genesis after Babylon
Language: English
Published by Green Lion Press, 2019
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- Title
- The Lion and the Ass: Reading Genesis after Babylon
- Author
- Sacks, Robert D.
- Publisher
- Green Lion Press
- Publication year
- 2019
- Condition
- Good
- Binding
- paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1888009527
- ISBN 13
- 9781888009521
With characteristic boldness, Robert Sacks offers a narrative path through themes, events, and actions in Genesis that repeatedly find their parallels and consequences in later books of the Torah and the Early Prophets. In light of the compelling unity these patterns convey, Sacks proposes to view Genesis not only as the first of the Five Books of Moses (the Torah), but as the opening work of a single composition consisting of Genesis through II Kings: the TANAR, whose name stems from a Hebrew acronym.
Sacks's thorough knowledge of the biblical text in Hebrew is brought to bear in his broad-ranging examination of key words and phrases in light of the way the Hebrew words are used elsewhere in the biblical text. When a lot is riding on a word, Sacks searches for the closest English meaning with full nuances and resonances: a worthwhile search when these may be clues to the biblical author's understanding of larger issues.
The Lion and the Ass are characters in I Kings Chapter 13. Sacks sees the Lion as typifying those towering biblical figures who "overturn in order to preserve"--figures like Abraham, Jacob, Moses, David, and Josiah. The Ass, also essential, typifies the many in-between individuals like Isaac, figures who resolutely carry on the burden of tradition.
Sacks argues that if we are to understand God's promise in the context of Israel's fall at the hands of Babylon, we must reinterpret the biblical author's intent. The promise must include Israel's ability to withstand years of captivity under foreign domination in Babylon.
Early versions of The Lion and the Ass first appeared serialized in the journal Interpretation, later under the title A Commentary on the Book of -Genesis (Edwin Mellen Press, 1990). In the intervening years, sadly, pirated versions, at once sloppy and incomplete, have been circulating on the internet. Kafir Yaroq is greatly pleased to make this book, newly and extensively revised by Dr. Sacks, available in a form worthy of its author and its readers.
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About the Author
Robert D. Sacks received his undergraduate education at St. John's
College, Annapolis, Maryland (B.A. 1954) and his graduate education at
The Johns Hopkins University (Ph.D. 1961). He also studied at the Ecole
des Langues Orientales Vivantes in Paris, Hebrew University, Jerusalem,
and the University of Chicago.
Sacks has taught at St. John's College since 1960, at both the Annapolis
and the Santa Fe Campuses; he has been a visiting faculty member at
Middlebury College in Vermont and St. Mary's College in California.
Sacks is the author of Beginning Biblical Hebrew: Intentionality and
Grammar(Kafir Yaroq Books, 2008) and The Book of Job: A New Translation
with In-Depth Commentary(Kafir Yaroq Books, 2016). An earlier version of
the present book appeared as A Commentary on the Book of Genesis (Edwin
Mellen Press, 1990); the present edition has been extensively revised by the author.
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