Does David Still Play Before You?: Israeli Poetry and the Bible - Hardcover

Jacobson, David C.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0814326234 ISBN 13: 9780814326237

Publisher: Wayne State University Press, 1997

Synopsis

Does David Still Play Before You? explores the ways that contemporary Israeli poets have made use of images from the Bible in their poetry. Through close readings of fifty poems, featured in their original Hebrew and in English translation, David Jacobson studies how Israeli poets respond to and incorporate the Bible in their work and reflect on the presence of the Bible in contemporary Israeli culture. The book provides a stunning collection of powerful and moving voices. Jacobson organizes the works according to subjects that recur with great frequency in Israeli poetry based on the Bible: the Arab-Israel conflict, responses to the Holocaust, relations between men and women, and modern challenges to traditional religious faith. Jacobson's literary analysis is informed by an astute awareness of the role of the Bible in Israeli culture. This volume is the first comprehensive study of the use of the Bible by Israeli poets, a phenomenon that is central to the development of Israeli poetry.

About this title

Book Description:

Does David Still Play Before You? explores the ways that contemporary Israeli poets have made use of images from the Bible in their poetry.

About the Author:

David C. Jacobson, an associate professor of Judaic Studies at Brown University, earned his Ph.D. from UCLA. He is the author of Modern Midrash: The Retelling of Traditional Jewish Narratives by Tewentieth-Century Hebrew Writers.

About this edition

• Publisher: Wayne State University Press
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0814326234
• ISBN 13: 9780814326237
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 288