Who wrought the Bible? : unveiling the Bible's aesthetic secrets /
Approaching the Hebrew Bible as a work of literary art, Yair Mazor examines its many genres, including historical narratives, poetic narratives, poetry, psalms, and songs. Line drawings from a late nineteenth-century Bible illustrate many of the most famous scenes in scripture, suggesting another ae...
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Madison, Wis. :
University of Wisconsin Press,
©2009.
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Table of Contents:
- One more mandatory introduction
- What you see is not what you get: when unity masquerades as disarray
- Abraham versus Abraham: the real Aqeda story
- Psalm 24: sense and sensibility in biblical composition
- The Song of songs, or the story of stories?
- Sex, lies, and the bible
- Rewarding aesthetic excavation in a biblical literary site
- When Job and Genesis visit Psalm 139
- Hosea 5:1-3: between compositional rhetoric and rhetorical composition.
