Edité par Vintage, 1991, 1991
Vendeur : Longhouse, Publishers & Booksellers, Brattleboro, VT, Etats-Unis
Edition originale
First edition Translated from the Hebrew by David Rosenberg. Fine and bright stiff wraps with strong square spine and crisp bright text throughout.
Edité par Grove Weidenfeld, USA, 1990
Vendeur : Bramble Ridge Books, Frankewing, TN, Etats-Unis
Soft cover. Etat : Good.
Edité par Grove Weidenfeld, New York, 1990
ISBN 10 : 0802110509 ISBN 13 : 9780802110503
Vendeur : Novel Ideas Books & Gifts, Decatur, IL, Etats-Unis
Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. Book Club Edition. ; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 340 pages.
Edité par New York : Grove Weidenfeld, c1990., 1990
ISBN 10 : 0802110509 ISBN 13 : 9780802110503
Vendeur : Tacoma Book Center, Tacoma, WA, Etats-Unis
Hardcover. Etat : Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Dustjacket included. Later Edition. ISBN 0802110509. Hardcover copy in fine condition with fine condition dustwrapper. Later printing. Tight clean copy. C 33-5 3. No Signature.
Edité par Grove Weidenfeld, New York, 1990
ISBN 10 : 0802110509 ISBN 13 : 9780802110503
Vendeur : Black Falcon Books, Wellesley, MA, Etats-Unis
Edition originale
Hardcover. Etat : Near Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good +. First Edition. First edition, stated; first printing, full number line. The book is square and unmarked; corners sharp, spine ends bumped. The dust jacket is not price-clipped (original price $21.95); edgewear at spine ends and corners; Brodart protected.
Edité par Grove Weidenfeld 1990, 1990
Vendeur : Hard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd., Dunedin, OTAGO, Nouvelle-Zélande
Membre d'association : IOBA
Super octavo softcover (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.
Edité par Faber and Faber Ltd, London, 1991
ISBN 10 : 0571161111 ISBN 13 : 9780571161119
Vendeur : The Print Room, Cockernhoe nr Luton, Royaume-Uni
Edition originale
Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. Jacket by Irene von Treskow (illustrateur). 1st Edition. First UK edition, first impression. Some slight edge wear and chipping to top and bottom of jacket and spine, corners slightly rubbed, some faint scratches to spine, some slight yellowing to page block. Not price clipped (£14.99), no inscriptions, internally clean tight and almost square, overall a vg+ copy for its age. 286pp. In this work of literary restoration, Harold Bloom and David Rosenberg recover a lost masterpiece by a nameless writer know as J, author of the oldest and most powerful stories in the Bible. Religious tradition ascribes authorship of the Pentateuch, the first five books of the Hebrew Bible or the Christian Old Testament, to Moses, but scholars agree that it is in fact a composite work consisting of texts by several different authors, woven together around 400 BCE by a master editor whom scholars know as the Redactor or R. The oldest of these texts, running through Genesis, Exodus and Numbers was written by the author whom scholars call J, probably in the 10th century BCE. For the first time, Bloom and Rosenberg lift the J text out of the surrounding material so that it stands as the classic it is. Bloom argues on aesthetic grounds that J is a writer of the stature of Homer, Shakespeare and Tolstoy, and on literary and psychological grounds that J was a woman, very likely a woman of the royal house living at the King Solomon's court. Paradoxically, on Bloom's interpretation, J is in no sense a religious writer. Rather she is an ironist with formidable powers of characterization, as revealed in her portrait of Adam, Joseph, Moses, Eve, Rebecca and Tamar. But J's finest creation is her Yahweh, an exuberant vitalist who is a far cry from the remote Jehovah superimposed by R and other editors. In Rosenberg's rendering, J's language is powerfully inventive, punning, playful and uncanny and her men and women are crafty and courageous. Quite a scarce book.