Beginnings: Reflections on the Bible's Intriguing Firsts - Couverture rigide

Shalev, Meir

 
9780307717184: Beginnings: Reflections on the Bible's Intriguing Firsts
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ISBN 10 : 0307717186 ISBN 13 : 9780307717184
Editeur : Harmony Books, 2011

Synopsis

Book by Shalev Meir

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Présentation de l'éditeur

The bestselling and prize-winning Israeli author Meir Shalev describes the many "firsts" of the Bible – the first love and the first death, to the first laugh and the first dream – providing a fresh, secular and surprising look at the stories we think we know.
 
The first kiss in the Bible is not a kiss of love. The first love in the Bible is not the love of a man and a woman. The first hatred in the Bible is the hatred of a man toward his wife. The first laugh in the Bible is also the last. In Beginnings, Meir Shalev reintroduces us to the heroes and heroines of the Old Testament, exploring these and many more of the Bible’s unexpected "firsts." Combining penetrating wit, deep empathy, and impressive knowledge of the Bible, he probes each episode to uncover nuances and implications that a lesser writer would overlook, and his nontraditional, nonreligious interpretations of the famous stories of the Bible take them beyond platitudes and assumptions to the love, fear, tragedy, and inspiration at their heart. Literary, inquisitive, and honest, Shalev makes these stories come alive in all their complicated beauty, and though these stories are ancient, their resonance remains intensely contemporary.

Biographie de l'auteur

MEIR SHALEV (b. 1948) is one of Israel's most celebrated writers. Author of six novels, most recently A Pigeon and a Boy, and five works of non-fiction, his writing has been translated into over 20 languages. A columnist for the Israeli daily Yediot Ahronot, Shalev lives in Jerusalem and in the north of Israel with his wife and children. He has received the Brenner Prize, Israel's highest literary honor, the National Jewish Book Award for Fiction, and numerous international honors.

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Éditeur
Harmony Books
Date d'édition
2011
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0307717186
ISBN 13 
9780307717184
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
295
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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