Interpreted by Harold Bloom (5 results)
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Seller: Novel Ideas Books & Gifts, Decatur, IL, U.S.A.Novel Ideas Books & Gifts
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Book Club Edition. ; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 340 pages.
Published by Vintage, 1991, 1991
- Softcover
- First Edition
Seller: Longhouse, Publishers & Booksellers, Brattleboro, VT, U.S.A.Longhouse, Publishers & Booksellers
Contact seller5-star sellerFirst edition Translated from the Hebrew by David Rosenberg. Fine and bright stiff wraps with strong square spine and crisp bright text throughout.
Published by Grove Weidenfeld, USA, 1990
- Softcover
Seller: Bramble Ridge Books, Frankewing, TN, U.S.A.Bramble Ridge Books
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Published by New York : Grove Weidenfeld, c1990., 1990
- Hardcover
Seller: Tacoma Book Center, Tacoma, WA, U.S.A.Tacoma Book Center
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dustjacket included. Later Edition. ISBN 0802110509. Hardcover copy in fine condition with fine condition dustwrapper. Later printing. Tight clean copy. C 33-5 3. No Signature.
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: The Print Room, Cockernhoe nr Luton, United KingdomThe Print Room
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First UK edition, first impression. Some slight edge wear and chipping to top and bottom of jacket and spine, corners slightly rubbed, some faint scratches to spine, some slight yellowing to page block. Not price clipped (£14.99), no inscriptions, in…ternally clean tight and almost square, overall a vg+ copy for its age. 286pp. In this work of literary restoration, Harold Bloom and David Rosenberg recover a lost masterpiece by a nameless writer know as J, author of the oldest and most powerful stories in the Bible. Religious tradition ascribes authorship of the Pentateuch, the first five books of the Hebrew Bible or the Christian Old Testament, to Moses, but scholars agree that it is in fact a composite work consisting of texts by several different authors, woven together around 400 BCE by a master editor whom scholars know as the Redactor or R. The oldest of these texts, running through Genesis, Exodus and Numbers was written by the author whom scholars call J, probably in the 10th century BCE. For the first time, Bloom and Rosenberg lift the J text out of the surrounding material so that it stands as the classic it is. Bloom argues on aesthetic grounds that J is a writer of the stature of Homer, Shakespeare and Tolstoy, and on literary and psychological grounds that J was a woman, very likely a woman of the royal house living at the King Solomon's court. Paradoxically, on Bloom's interpretation, J is in no sense a religious writer. Rather she is an ironist with formidable powers of characterization, as revealed in her portrait of Adam, Joseph, Moses, Eve, Rebecca and Tamar. But J's finest creation is her Yahweh, an exuberant vitalist who is a far cry from the remote Jehovah superimposed by R and other editors. In Rosenberg's rendering, J's language is powerfully inventive, punning, playful and uncanny and her men and women are crafty and courageous. Quite a scarce book. Jacket by Irene von Treskow (illustrator).
