The Book of J

David Rosenberg (Translator); Harold Bloom (Interpreter)

ISBN 10: 0802110509 / ISBN 13: 9780802110503

Published by Grove Weidenfeld, New York, 1990

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340 pp. Clean, fresh copy with very light shelf wear, crisp pages and clean text. Dj shows minimal wear.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Book of J
• Publisher: Grove Weidenfeld, New York
• Publication Date: 1990
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0802110509
• ISBN 13: 9780802110503
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Carin Goldberg (Jacket Design)
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Like New
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Jewish & Israeli Pol. Studies, Zionism, Holocaust
  • Literary Studies, Literary Theory & Lit. Criticsm
  • Jewish Literature, Culture & Studies, Judaism

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Synopsis

Translates and interprets the portions of the Pentateuch which derive from an ancient work known as the "J" document, the earliest known version of the Pentateuch

Reviews

Modern biblical critics have called the author of the oldest texts in the Hebrew Bible J, standing for Jahweh. Bloom and translator Rosenberg, authors of many works of literary criticism and of Jewish and biblical studies, have collaborated on a clear but controversial translation and analysis of parts of the Pentateuch using the term Jahweh. Bloom claims that the author of J was a woman, living in or at the time of the Solomonic court, 950-900 B.C.E., who wrote these selections not as a religious or historical treatise but as a literary work that Bloom compares to Shakespeare. While Rosenberg's translation is both modern and moving, he has made significant changes in the meanings of the Hebrew text. The proofs offered for these theories are no substitute for hard evidence. Nevertheless, The Book of J deserves consideration as a literary work.
- Maurice Tuchman, Hebrew Coll. Lib., Brookline, Mass.
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