Ancient Hebrew Stories and Their Modern Interpretation

W. G. Jordan

ISBN 10: 1596053348 / ISBN 13: 9781596053342

Edité par Cosimo Classics 2005-12-01, 2005

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Ancient Hebrew Stories and Their Modern Interpretation
• Éditeur: Cosimo Classics 2005-12-01
• Date de parution: 2005
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1596053348
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781596053342
• Reliure: Paperback
• État de l'article: New

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Synopsis

This short story has called forth the highest praise from the most competent critics for its simple beautiful presentation of scenes from the rural life of ancient Israel. It is artistic in the noblest sense, though it is not likely that in those days there was much consciousness of art of discussion as to the technique of story-telling. -from "Ruth: A Woman's Faithfulness and Its Reward" With an emphasis on the Bible as literature, this classic 1922 work examines the stories of the Old Testament with a modern eye, exploring not only their religious and historical significance but their beauty and effectiveness as prose and as examples of the art of storytelling. Among the tales considered are: . The Creation of the World . The First Murder . The Tower of Babel . The Story of Jacob . Samson: or A Strong Man's Failure . Saul and the Witch of Endor . The Story of Job: The Problem of Suffering . The Story of Jonah: A Prophetic Satire . and more. Canadian scholar W. G. JORDAN was professor of Hebrew language and literature at Queen's University, Kingston. He also wrote Biblical Criticism and Modern Thought (1909).

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Old Testament in the light of modern study, with a view to discovering their original significance and showing their relations to other parts of this great literature. It is quite natural in the atmosphere of our time that the most prominent and attractive feature should be the utterances of the great prophets, the oracles of the men who did so much to lift religion to a higher moral plane and make it a spiritual rather than a magical power. It is said that prophecy is the heart of the Old Testament, and that statement is true enough, if we remember that the heart, though a central and vital organ, is related to all other parts of the body ;it receives the life-blood and sends it forth again in purer, stronger forms. We will find prophetic ideas in earlier stories just as we can trace the influence of prophecy in later history and law. We are concerned with a movement which, when it once began, was continuous and all its parts were woven into a living whole.
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