In this Book
- Who Wrought the Bible?: Unveiling the Bible's Aesthetic Secrets
- Book
- 2008
- Published by: University of Wisconsin Press
summary
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 aesthetic layer of the text. By breaking the Bible into constituent parts, Mazor traces the range of its writing styles, reconfiguring the work as a literary collage and an artistic masterpiece. He shows how the aesthetics of the texts that comprise the Bible serve its over-arching message, and he develops a literary portrait of its authors by decoding their cryptic aesthetic devices.
Table of Contents
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- List of Illustrations
- pp. viii-x
- Acknowledgments
- pp. xi-xii
- Policy of Transliteration
- pp. xiii-xiv
- Introduction
- pp. 3-27
- 1. One More Mandatory Introduction
- pp. 28-46
- 6. Sex, Lies, and the Bible
- pp. 95-126
- 8. When Job and Genesis Visit Psalm 139
- pp. 135-147
- General Index
- pp. 171-178
- Index of Biblical Citations
- pp. 179-182
Additional Information
ISBN
9780299228439
Related ISBN(s)
9780299228408
MARC Record
OCLC
744605306
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No