The Hidden Book in the Bible - Hardcover

The Hidden Book in the Bible.

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Buchbeschreibung Zustand: Sehr gut. XII, 402 p. From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Minimally rubbed jacket, allover very good and clean. - In recent years, Harold Bloom s The Book of J and Friedman s own Who Wrote the Bible? have made the short work called J known to the public. But in The Hidden Book in the Bible Friedman presents his landmark discovery that "J is not a work. It is the beginning section of a work: a long, exquisitely connected prose composition full of artistry and power." Using a creative blend of scholarship and detective work, Friedman has joined together this story from the dawn of written history, and what emerges is astonishing. Far from a primitive first attempt at writing, it is an exciting and complex saga, a passionate work of love, deception, war, and redemption. Readers will experience the story that has not been read as a single continuous narrative for almost three millennia. Friedman begins by leading the reader through the exciting story of his discovery of this hidden work. He marshals the evidence, showing how a unique use of language and themes from the two cases of the famous "coat of many colors" to all nine references to Sheol (the place of the dead), and from incidents of sibling rivalry to sexual violation recur in a connected way in certain parts of the Bible but nowhere else. Friedman dramatically illustrates how these clues establish a singular author s voice guiding more of the Bible than was ever previously suspected. Friedman presents the work itself in a bold translation that is remarkably faithful to the original. It begins with a well-known tale of the deity s creation of a paradise that goes wrong and then conveys a sweep of history, telling the story of a family through twelve generations: a story of deception and recompense, of powerful loves and sibling rivalries, of wars and spies. The family becomes a nation, the nation finds a ruling family, and they find their way to peace. The author of this saga crafts a compelling and densely woven tale of family struggles, bitter betrayal, and, finally, the birth of a great kingdom under Solomon, the son of David. This work, says Friedman, is a treasure. It became the core of the Bible and the beginning of prose literature. Readers now have the opportunity to see the first great prose writer s full achievement: an epic work of the struggle between God and humans, and between good and bad. The Hidden Book in the Bible will forever change the way we regard the Bible. - RICHARD ELLIOTT FRIEDMAN is Professor of Hebrew and Comparative Literature and holds the Katzin Chair at the University of California, San Diego. He received his doctorate at Harvard and was a visiting scholar at Oxford and Cambridge. He is the author of The Hidden Face of God and the bestselling Who Wrote the Bible? ISBN 9780060630034 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 741 Original hardcover with dust jacket. Artikel-Nr. 1173730

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