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The Book of Lamentations: A Meditation and Translation
David R. Slavitt
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| #1059953 in Books | 2001-05-23 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.50 x.32 x5.50l,.33 | File type: PDF | 104 pages||5 of 5 people found the following review helpful.| A Fine Book|By Kurt|The book is divided into two parts: a meditation on the history of the Jews, and a new translation of the Book of Lamentations.
Regarding the first half: I found it a well-written and fascinating essay. Slavitt covers a good deal of historical ground in about 60 pages, but does so with great lucidity, grace, and wit (much of it appropriately sard|||"He has produced a version of Lamentations that manages to be not only faithful to the structure of the original, respectful of the ashes-and-tears-drenched imagery of the Hebrew, while sacrificing none of the power of the biblical test... a masterpie
Distinguished poet and translator David R. Slavitt here provides a translation of and meditation upon the Book of Lamentations, the biblical account of the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem in 587 B.C.,on the ninth day of the Jewish month of Av―Tish'a b'Av. (Six centuries later the Romans destroyed the second Temple on the same day.) Most of the Jewish population was deported to Babylon, and the ensuing period came to be known as the Babylonian Captivity. Accor...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.The Book of Lamentations: A Meditation and Translation | David R. Slavitt. I have read it a couple of times and even shared with my family members. Really good. Couldnt put it down.
