Who Wrought the Bible?: Unveiling the Bible’s Aesthetic Secrets

Who Wrought the Bible?: Unveiling the Bible’s Aesthetic Secrets image
ISBN-10:

0299228401

ISBN-13:

9780299228408

Author(s): Mazor, Yair
Edition: 1
Released: Nov 30, 2008
Format: Hardcover, 232 pages
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Description:

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.












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