Agnon's Moonstruck Lovers

Agnon's Moonstruck Lovers
Author: Ilana Pardes
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Total Pages: 216
Release: 2013-11-26
Genre: History
ISBN: 0295804777

Agnon's Moonstruck Lovers explores the response of Israel’s Nobel laureate S. Y. Agnon to the privileged position of the Song of Songs in Israeli culture. Standing at a unique crossroads between religion and secularism, Agnon probes the paradoxes and ambiguities of the Zionist hermeneutic project. In adopting the Song, Zionist interpreters sought to return to the erotic, pastoral landscapes of biblical times. Their quest for a new, uplifting, secular literalism, however, could not efface the haunting impact of allegorical configurations of love. With superb irony, Agnon's tales recast Israeli biblicism as a peculiar chapter within the ever-surprising history of biblical exegesis.

Library of Congress Catalog

Library of Congress Catalog
Author: Library of Congress
Publisher:
Total Pages: 998
Release: 1972
Genre: Subject catalogs
ISBN:

Beginning with 1953, entries for Motion pictures and filmstrips, Music and phonorecords form separate parts of the Library of Congress catalogue. Entries for Maps and atlases were issued separately 1953-1955.

The Targum of the Minor Prophets

The Targum of the Minor Prophets
Author:
Publisher: Liturgical Press
Total Pages: 259
Release: 2024-05-15
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0814689469

Although the term "minor prophets" is a familiar one in English Bible translations, it is not a felicitous one, since it applies as much to Hosea as to Haggai and to Amos as to Obadiah. The Targum offers no such pecking order. Nuggets of importance are as likely to be found in a Targumized "minor" prophet as a "major" one. Included in this volume are the books of Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Haggai, Zechariah, and Malachi. The authors' apparatus in the introduction provides the translational characteristics, theology, life-setting, text and versions, language, rabbinic citations and parallels, dating, manuscripts, and bibliography. A series of indices is also included.

The Targum of Lamentations

The Targum of Lamentations
Author:
Publisher: Liturgical Press
Total Pages: 239
Release: 2024-05-15
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0814689515

This work provides a definitive translation into English of the Targum of Lamentations, based on a critical reading of all the extant versions, with textual annotations and extensive notes. An appendix offers, in addition, a translation and annotation of the Yemenite version.

Medieval Concepts of the Past

Medieval Concepts of the Past
Author: Gerd Althoff
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 370
Release: 2002-01-31
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780521780667

An analysis of medieval ritual, history, and memory in Germany and the United States.