The Legends of Genesis
Author : Hermann Gunkel
Publisher :
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 46,46 MB
Release : 1901
Category : Bible
ISBN :
Author : Hermann Gunkel
Publisher :
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 46,46 MB
Release : 1901
Category : Bible
ISBN :
Author : Hermann Gunkel
Publisher :
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 40,53 MB
Release : 1901
Category : Religion
ISBN :
Author : Hermann Gunkel
Publisher :
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 22,61 MB
Release : 2016-05-26
Category :
ISBN : 9781533283023
The Legends Of Genesis is the English translation of the introduction to Gunkel's commentary, 'Genesis'. The author uses critical analysis on the text of Genesis to determine the various genres of the biblical legends and their significance to the authors. He also attempts to uncover buried clues as to the sources of the text; finally offering his hypothesis to explain how the various sources came to be combined, and how the text later came to be attributed to Moses.
Author : Robert Graves
Publisher : Rosetta Books
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 29,93 MB
Release : 2014-05-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0795337159
The I, Claudius author’s “lightning sharp interpretations and insights . . . are here brought to bear with equal effectiveness on the Book of Genesis” (Kirkus Reviews). This is a comprehensive look at the stories that make up the Old Testament and the Jewish religion, including the folk tales, apocryphal texts, midrashes, and other little-known documents that the Old Testament and the Torah do not include. In this exhaustive study, Robert Graves provides a fascinating account of pre-Biblical texts that have been censored, suppressed, and hidden for centuries, and which now emerge to give us a clearer view of Hebrew myth and religion than ever. Venerable classicist and historian Robert Graves recounts the ancient Hebrew stories, both obscure and familiar, with a rich sense of storytelling, culture, and spirituality. This book is sure to be riveting to students of Jewish or Judeo-Christian history, culture, and religion.
Author : Hermann Gunkel
Publisher :
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 40,34 MB
Release : 1907
Category : Bible
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Author : Ronald Hendel
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 39,12 MB
Release : 2019-09-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0691196834
During its 2,500-year life, the book of Genesis has been the keystone to important claims about God and humanity in Judaism and Christianity, and it plays a central role in contemporary debates about science, politics, and human rights. The authors provide a panoramic history of this iconic book, exploring its impact on Western religion, philosophy, literature, art, and more.
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Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 18,61 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Bible
ISBN : 9780802136107
Hailed as "the most radical repackaging of the Bible since Gutenberg", these Pocket Canons give an up-close look at each book of the Bible.
Author : Henry Charlton Beck
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 41,73 MB
Release : 1983
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813510156
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Author : Hermann (Theologe) Gunkel
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Page : 164 pages
File Size : 31,57 MB
Release : 1964
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Author : Hermann Gunkel
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 39,54 MB
Release : 2013-09
Category :
ISBN : 9781230349848
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1901 edition. Excerpt: ... III. THE LITERARY FORM OF THE LEGENDS. THE beauty of the legends of Genesis has always been a source of delight to readers of refined taste and it is not mere chance that painters have been so fond of choosing the subjects of their works from Genesis. Scholars have more rarely expressed appreciation of the beauty of these narratives, often perhaps for personal reasons, and perhaps often because the aesthetic point of view seemed to them incompatible with the dignity of science. However, we do not share this prejudice, but, on the contrary, are of the opinion that one who ignores the artistic form of these legends not only deprives himself of a great pleasure, but is unable properly to satisfy the scientific demands of the understanding of Genesis. Nay, more: it is no insignificant question for science to answer, in what the peculiar beauty of the legends consists, --a problem whose solution requires a thorough investigation of the contents and the religion of Genesis. GENESIS IS PROSE. The first question is, whether the form of the diction is prose or poetry. Aside from Genesis xlix. which is a poem and not a narrative, and on that ground alone is out of place in Genesis, all that the book contains is prose in form. Detailed investigations of the nature of this prose have not been carried on. Meanwhile, at least this may be said, that this prose is not the common colloquial language of every-day life, but is more artistic in its composition and has some sort of rhythmical construction. Hebrew prosody is still a sealed book to us, but in reading Genesis aloud one feels an agreeable harmony of rhythmically balanced members. The translator of Genesis is constrained to imitate this balancing of sentences. Since the legends were already very..