The David Story A Translation With Commentary Of 1 And 2 Samuel
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Author | : Robert Alter |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 452 |
Release | : 2009-10-21 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0393070255 |
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"A masterpiece of contemporary Bible translation and commentary."—Los Angeles Times Book Review, Best Books of 1999 Acclaimed for its masterful new translation and insightful commentary, The David Story is a fresh, vivid rendition of one of the great works in Western literature. Robert Alter's brilliant translation gives us David, the beautiful, musical hero who slays Goliath and, through his struggles with Saul, advances to the kingship of Israel. But this David is also fully human: an ambitious, calculating man who navigates his life's course with a flawed moral vision. The consequences for him, his family, and his nation are tragic and bloody. Historical personage and full-blooded imagining, David is the creation of a literary artist comparable to the Shakespeare of the history plays.
Author | : Robert Alter |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 2010-02-28 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0691128812 |
Download Pen of Iron Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Examines the way that the King James version of the Bible--especially the Old Testament--has influenced literary style in the works of Melville, Hemingway, Faulkner, Bellow, Marilynne Robinson, and Cormac McCarthy.
Author | : David Steinberg |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 211 |
Release | : 2007-06-12 |
Genre | : Humor |
ISBN | : 1416545565 |
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From award-winning comedian, director, writer, and producer David Steinberg comes the totally original, utterly blasphemous, and hysterically funny memoir of a young man who emerged from a traditional Jewish childhood to become an international star—all because, it seems, he kept God in stitches. David Steinberg was raised in Winnipeg, Canada, by parents who expected little from him. And no wonder. Instead of studying Talmud in order to become a rabbi, he chose to major in Martin and Lewis with a minor in basketball. As David imagines the story of his life (since his success otherwise makes no sense), God one day spotted him on the playground and decided that this young man with no ambition could go far with His help. Sure enough, God soon had David on network TV and Broadway, and selling out nightclubs across the country—as well as being pursued by hot starlets. The Book of David is David Steinberg's hilarious trip down memory lane, assuming that the lane has a biblical address. This wild riff on the Old Testament is guaranteed laughter.
Author | : David G. Firth |
Publisher | : IVP Academic |
Total Pages | : 646 |
Release | : 2009-05-06 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : |
Download 1 & 2 Samuel Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
This commentary begins with an Introduction, which gives an overview of the issues of date, authorship, sources and so on, but which also outlines more fully than usual the theology of 1 and 2 Samuel, and provides pointers toward its interpretation and contemporary application.
Author | : Robert Alter |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 879 |
Release | : 2013-04 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0393082695 |
Download Ancient Israel: The Former Prophets: Joshua, Judges, Samuel, and Kings: A Translation with Commentary Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Chronicles the ancient history of Israel and its prophets, from Samson to Elijah.
Author | : Robert Alter |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 382 |
Release | : 1997-09-02 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780393316704 |
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A translation of Genesis, which attempts to recover the meanings of the ancient Hebrew and convey them in modern English prose. It is accompanied by a commentary and annotations, and aims to illuminate the original work without any touch of the fake antique.
Author | : Paul Borgman |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 346 |
Release | : 2008-04-16 |
Genre | : Bibles |
ISBN | : 0199887128 |
Download David, Saul, and God Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
The biblical story of King David and his conflict with King Saul (1 and 2 Samuel) is one of the most colorful and perennially popular in the Hebrew Bible. In recent years, this story has attracted a great deal of scholarly attention, much of it devoted to showing that David was a far less heroic character than appears on the surface. Indeed, more than one has painted David as a despicable tyrant. Paul Borgman provides a counter-reading to these studies, through an attentive reading of the narrative patterns of the text. He focuses on one of the key features of ancient Hebrew narrative poetics -- repeated patterns -- taking special note of even the small variations each time a pattern recurs. He argues that such "hearing cues" would have alerted an ancient audience to the answers to such questions as "Who is David?" and "What is so wrong with Saul?" The narrative insists on such questions, says Borgman, slowly disclosing answers through patterns of repeated scenarios and dominant motifs that yield, finally, the supreme work of storytelling in ancient literature. Borgman concludes with a comparison with Homer's storytelling technique, demontrating that the David story is indeed a masterpiece and David (as Baruch Halpern has said) "the first truly modern human."
Author | : Steven L. McKenzie |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 253 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Bible |
ISBN | : 0195132734 |
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David's story, writes McKenzie, "reads like a modern soap opera, with plenty of sex, violence, and struggles for power.""--BOOK JACKET.
Author | : Robert Alter |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 561 |
Release | : 2009-09-22 |
Genre | : Bibles |
ISBN | : 0393337049 |
Download The Book of Psalms: A Translation with Commentary Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
In his brilliant new translation of one of the Bibles most cherished and powerful books, Alter captures the simplicity, physicality, and coiled rhythmic power of the Hebrew, restoring the remarkable eloquence of these ancient poems.
Author | : Joyce G. Baldwin |
Publisher | : InterVarsity Press |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : |
Download 1 and 2 Samuel Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
The stories of Samuel, Saul and David are wound up in the larger story of God's purpose for his people. Looking beyond the well-known surface of these stories, Joyce C. Baldwin explores the significance of Israel's transition from a confederation of tribes to a nation ruled by one king.