The extraordinary and long-lived appeal of The Song of Songs lies in its unmatched lyrical beauty and in its supreme evocation of the moods of sexual love. Perhaps the most famous and popular book of the Bible, it is usually - and yet mistakenly - thought of as a single long narrative poem. Scholars have proposed many theories of the book's structure, but none is more natural than the view that it is a small anthology of quite distinct and varied lyric poems, composed over several centuries of Hebrew history. Fresh and ...
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The extraordinary and long-lived appeal of The Song of Songs lies in its unmatched lyrical beauty and in its supreme evocation of the moods of sexual love. Perhaps the most famous and popular book of the Bible, it is usually - and yet mistakenly - thought of as a single long narrative poem. Scholars have proposed many theories of the book's structure, but none is more natural than the view that it is a small anthology of quite distinct and varied lyric poems, composed over several centuries of Hebrew history. Fresh and lyrical, this translation remains the most readable edition available. The poems are set in context by the late Rabbi Dr David Goldstein's revealing introduction, and enhanced with a useful set of notes. Peter Jay (b.1945) read Classics and English at Oxford, and founded Anvil Press in 1968. He edited The Greek Anthology for Penguin Classics and has translated modern Romanian and Hungarian poetry, including the work of Ana Blandiana. He is the author of Shifting Frontiers (1980), the translator of G???rard de Nerval's The Chimeras (1984) and the editor, with Caroline Lewis, of Sappho Through English Poetry (1996). He lives in Greenwich. Rabbi Dr David Goldstein (1933-1987) was Associate Minister at the Liberal Jewish Synagogue, London. He was co-editor of the Littman Library of Jewish Civilization. His translations of The Jewish Poets of Spain were published by Penguin Classics.
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Nikos Stavroulakis. Near Fine in Fair jacket. 8vo-over 7¾-9¾" tall. Pages unmarked and pristine. Boards in turquoise blue with gilt lettering. Dust jacket, full-colour illustration by Nikos Stavroulakis, is very good on front; the back has discolouration and marks. The first edition of the Old Testament Song of Songs to present the book to the general reader as a collection of lyric poems, and in modern poetry translation. Rabbi Dr David Goldstein contributes a scholarly introduction, and the book is illustrated with a series of specially commissioned b&w woodcuts by Nikos Stavroulakis.
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Linocuts By Nikos Stavroulakis. Very Good+ in Very Good, Not Price Clipped jacket. Book. Signed by Author(s) Inscribed and dated Brighton, May 1976 by Peter Kay on page opposite the title page: "for Miriam-with love from Peter"; Miriam Waddington has written her name on the front end paper as owner; some edge wear to dust jacket along top edge and one unfortunate piece of scotch tape beginning on front cover and extending across the spine to the back cover; otherwise a solid, clean copy in collectible condition; ten marvellous lino cuts by Nikos Stavroulakis.
