Poets of the Bible

From Solomon's Song of Songs to John's Revelation

Buch | Hardcover

544 Seiten

2017
WW Norton & Co (Verlag)
978-0-393-24389-5 (ISBN)

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“The vividness and beauty of the language emerge in a fresh way... with evocative simplicity.”—Robert Alter

The world’s greatest poetry resides in the Bible, yet these major poets are traditionally rendered into prose. In this pioneering volume, Willis Barnstone’s translations restore the lyricism and power of the poets’ voices in both the New and the Old Testaments. In the Hebrew Bible, we hear Solomon rhapsodise in Song of Songs; David chant in Psalms; God and Job debate in grand rhetoric; and prophet-poet Isaiah plead for peace. Jesus speaks in wisdom verse in the Gospel, Paul is a philosopher of love and John of Patmos roars majestically in Revelation, the Bible’s epic poem. This ground-breaking volume includes every major biblical poem from Genesis and Adam and Eve in the Garden to the last pages of Alpha and Omega in Paradise.

Willis Barnstone, professor, poet, and scholar, is the author of eighty volumes, including The Restored New Testament, The Gnostic Bible, The Poems of Jesus Christ, The Poetics of Translation, and Mexico in My Heart: New and Selected Poems. He lives in Oakland, California, and Paris.

Erscheinungsdatum	12.08.2017
Übersetzer	Willis Barnstone
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	168 x 244 mm
Gewicht	920 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte
	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Bibelausgaben / Bibelkommentare
	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Gebete / Lieder / Meditationen
	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
ISBN-10	0-393-24389-3 / 0393243893
ISBN-13	978-0-393-24389-5 / 9780393243895
Zustand	Neuware