Robert Graves, Raphael Patai

Hebrew Myths (eBook, ePUB)

The Book of Genesis

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The I, Claudius author's "lightning sharp interpretations and insights... are here brought to bear with equal effectiveness on the Book of Genesis" ( Kirkus Reviews). This is a comprehensive look at the stories that make up the Old Testament and the Jewish religion, including the folk tales, apocryphal texts, midrashes, and other little-known documents that the Old Testament and the Torah do not include. In this exhaustive study, Robert Graves provides a fascinating account of pre-Biblical texts that have been censored, suppressed, and hidden for centuries, and which now emerge to give us a clearer view of Hebrew myth and religion than ever. Venerable classicist and historian Robert Graves recounts the ancient Hebrew stories, both obscure and familiar, with a rich sense of storytelling, culture, and spirituality. This book is sure to be riveting to students of Jewish or Judeo-Christian history, culture, and religion.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: RosettaBooks
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Februar 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780795337154
• Artikelnr.: 41046898

Autorenporträt

Robert Graves (1895-1985) was an English novelist, poet, and translator of Classical Greek and Roman literature, and one of the most prominent English writers of the 20th century. He was an extremely prolific writer, who published more than 140 novels and collections of poetry. In addition to novels and poetry, he published groundbreaking analysis of Greek mythology, as well as memoir. Graves is best known for his historical novels, which include I, Claudius, Claudius, the God, The Golden Fleece, King Jesus, and Count Belisarius. Robert Graves served in combat in World War I and was gravely wounded at the Battle of the Somme. Following his recovery, he wrote several works of war poetry as well as a memoir of his time in combat, entitled Goodbye to All That. In 1934, Robert Graves was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for his historical novels dealing with the Roman Emperor Claudius.

Rezensionen

All the laconic scholarship and lightning sharp interpretations and insights which have made Graves studies of the Greek myths one of the most seductive source books of the decade are here brought to bear with equal effectiveness on the book of Genesis. Kirkus Reviews

For its information and its insights, Hebrew Myths should be popular and valuable among anthropologists. Omer C. Stewart, American Anthropologist

This work not only treats texts deriving from the same larger world that produced Genesis, it also provides extensive documentation of the subsequent rabbinic legends that arose in an attempt to understand the fuller meaning of the text. In this arena, Hebrew Myths offers the reader a treasure trove of Talmudic lore. Rick R. Marrs, Christianity and Literature