The Book of J - Hardcover

David Rosenberg; Harold Bloom

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0802110509 ISBN 13: 9780802110503

Publisher: Grove Weidenfeld, 1990

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

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From the Publisher:

"[Rosenberg's] version is exhilarating: it evokes the power of the poetry and the force of the human predicament....Eloquent....Bloom's vision...is startling but convincing."--Grace Schulman

From the Inside Flap:

ee that the first strand in Genesis, Exodus, and Numbers was written by an author whom they call J, who lived in the tenth century before Christ.

In The Book of J, accompanying David Rosenberg's startling new translation, America's greatest literary critic, Harold Bloom, asserts that J was a writer of the stature of Homer, Shakespeare, and Tolstoy and puts forth the revolutionary idea that J was very likely a woman.

J was a genius with unmatched powers of irony and characterization, as shown in her unforgettable and very human portraits of Abram and Sarai, Rebecca, Jacob and Rachel, Joseph, Tamar, and Moses -- and, above all, God, or Yahweh. The Book of F reclaims the Bible's first and greatest author and presents us with the full grandeur of her creation.

About this edition

• Publisher: Grove Weidenfeld
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0802110509
• ISBN 13: 9780802110503
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 340