Find a copy in the library
Finding libraries that hold this item...
Details
Document Type: | Book |
---|---|
All Authors / Contributors: |
John Dancy |
ISBN: | 0718829875 9780718829872 |
OCLC Number: | 47776385 |
Description: | 798 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
Responsibility: | John Dancy. |
Abstract:
This masterly work aims to restore the literature of the Bible to a general readership, combining insightful commentary with extracts from the Old Testament chosen for their artistic and dramatic interest.
Read more...
Reviews
Editorial reviews
Publisher Synopsis
"The comments which accompany the individual extracts are admirably clear and pack a good deal of information and insight into a comparatively brief compass...The non-specialist reader will be greatly enlightened by the introductory sections on the Hebrew language, Hebrew storytelling and Hebrew poetry. Two appendices set the Old Testament in its earliest literary contexts, the Ancient Near East and Greek Literature, then latter being particularly interesting and reflecting the author's training as a classicist." J.R. Porter, The Times Literary Supplement, (January 4, 2002) Read more...
User-contributed reviews
Add a review and share your thoughts with other readers.
Be the first.
Add a review and share your thoughts with other readers.
Be the first.


Tags
Add tags for "The divine drama : the Old Testament as literature".
Be the first.