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The Song of Songs: New Translation: A New Translation Book

Ariel and Chana Bloch's new translation of the Song of Songs--the most sexually explicit and sensually rich book of the Bible--is pure delight from beginning to end. Its introduction is an accessible, sophisticated, entertaining, and comprehensive orientation to the literary and religious history of the Song of Songs. The Blochs say the speakers in this poem "don't suffer love, they savor it." Their translation, overflowing with full--almost to the point of florid--feeling ("Feast, friends, and drink / till you are drunk with love!"), arrives at a time when many Jews and Christians are opening themselves to the religious dimensions of sexuality and human love. Song of Songs has a great deal to teach us; this translation is sure to attract many eager students. --Michael Joseph Gross Read More

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    Poetry. Religious Studies. "Chana and Ariel Bloch's new translation of THE SONG OF SONGS is quite simply the best version in the English language. Its poetic voice, intimate, dignified, and informed by meticulous scholarship, carries us into the Eden of the orginal Hebrew text: a world in which the sexual awakening of two unmarried lovers is clelbrated with a sensuality and a richness of music that are thrilling beyond words." -- Stephen Mitchell. "(A) masterpiece has just appeared in America... This is Chana and Ariel Bloch's beautiful translation of THE SONG OF SONGS, with the English and the Hebrew on facing pages, an informative introduction, wonderfully interesting notes, and a thought-provoking afterword by Robert Alter" --Gabriel Josipovici, The Times Literary Supplement (London). Chana Bloch is author of the poetry collection THE PAST KEEPS CHANGING (Sheep Meadow Press). She teaches at Mills College. Ariel Bloch is Professor Emeritus of Near Eastern Studies at the University of California at Berkeley.

  • 0520213300
  • 9780520213302
  • A Bloch
  • 27 July 1998
  • University of California Press
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 263
  • Reprint
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