00908nam 2200337 450 991016510190332120230808193517.01-5040-3848-7(CKB)3710000000722612(MiAaPQ)EBC4537735(EXLCZ)99371000000072261220160714d2016 uy| 1engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierMoongather /Jo ClaytonNew York :Open Road Integrated Media,2016.1 online resource (208 pages)The duel of sorcery trilogyFantasy fiction, AmericanFantasy fiction, American.Clayton Jo1374511MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910165101903321Moongather3407755UNINA03776nam 2200673 a 450 991096630290332120251117091116.09786613279897978128327989512832798949780300180015030018001210.12987/9780300180015(CKB)2550000000048020(StDuBDS)AH24486466(SSID)ssj0000541214(PQKBManifestationID)11340847(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000541214(PQKBWorkID)10498553(PQKB)10060283(MiAaPQ)EBC3420724(DE-B1597)486387(OCoLC)754842195(DE-B1597)9780300180015(Au-PeEL)EBL3420724(CaPaEBR)ebr10497656(CaONFJC)MIL327989(OCoLC)923596458(Perlego)1089868(OCoLC)754842195(EXLCZ)99255000000004802020110203d2011 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtccrThe shadow of a great rock a literary appreciation of the King James Bible /Harold Bloom1st ed.New Haven Yale University Pressc20111 online resource (320 p.)Includes index.9780300166835 0300166834 Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- The Five Books of Moses -- Four Heroines -- David (1 and 2 Samuel to 1 Kings 2) -- The Prophets -- Psalms 1 -- Psalms 2 -- Proverbs -- Job -- Ecclesiastes -- The Song of Songs -- The Hidden Books -- Esdras -- Tobit -- The Wisdom of Solomon -- Ecclesiasticus -- The History of Susanna -- The Literary Merit of the Greek New Testament -- Mark -- John -- The Writings of Paul -- Hebrews -- James -- Revelation -- Acknowledgments -- IndexThe King James Bible stands at "the sublime summit of literature in English," sharing the honor only with Shakespeare, Harold Bloom contends in the opening pages of this illuminating literary tour. Distilling the insights acquired from a significant portion of his career as a brilliant critic and teacher, he offers readers at last the book he has been writing "all my long life," a magisterial and intimately perceptive reading of the King James Bible as a literary masterpiece.Bloom calls it an "inexplicable wonder" that a rather undistinguished group of writers could bring forth such a magnificent work of literature, and he credits William Tyndale as their fountainhead. Reading the King James Bible alongside Tyndale's Bible, the Geneva Bible, and the original Hebrew and Greek texts, Bloom highlights how the translators and editors improved upon-or, in some cases, diminished-the earlier versions. He invites readers to hear the baroque inventiveness in such sublime books as the Song of Songs, Ecclesiastes, and Job, and alerts us to the echoes of the King James Bible in works from the Romantic period to the present day. Throughout, Bloom makes an impassioned and convincing case for reading the King James Bible as literature, free from dogma and with an appreciation of its enduring aesthetic value.Bible as literatureRELIGION / Biblical Criticism & Interpretation / GeneralbisacshBible as literature.RELIGION / Biblical Criticism & Interpretation / General.220.5/203Bloom Harold164457MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910966302903321The shadow of a great rock4356615UNINA