Bottom end of backstrip sun-faded; bottom corner of covers slightly bumped; barely affecting pages; otherwise very good condition in very good dust jacket. Signed by both Bloom and Rosenberg on front endpaper. ]. 340p.

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Title: The book of J. Translated from the Hebrew
Publisher: New York, Grove Weidenfeld, [
Publication Date: 1990
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0802110509
ISBN 13: 9780802110503
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: First edition.

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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

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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.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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