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Profane Scriptures

Reflections on the Dialogue with the Bible in Modern Hebrew Poetry


Originally delivered in 1995 as three lectures in the Efroymson Series at Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati, Profane Scriptures explores aspects of the complex relationship between modern Hebrew poetry and the Bible. Focusing on those stylistic features natural to the Hebrew language that allow the special fusion between past and present to take place, Blum uses the story of the Binding of Isaac (the aqedah) and its metamorphoses as a test case for studying the history of modern Hebrew poetry and Hebrew poetics.

Ruth Kartun-Blum
With Original Drawings by Menoshe Kadishma

1999 / 110 pp / 11 illus / ISBN 0-87820-054-1, cloth: $21.95



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