BEGINNINGS: REFLECTIONS OF THE BIBLE´S INTRIGUING FIRSTS, BY NATALIE GOLDBERG

Description: The bestselling and prize-winning Israeli author Meir Shalev describes the many "firsts" of the Bible – the first love and the first death, to the first laugh and the first dream – providing a fresh, secular and surprising look at the stories we think we know. The first kiss in the Bible is not a kiss of love. The first love in the Bible is not the love of a man and a woman. The first hatred in the Bible is the hatred of a man toward his wife. The first laugh in the Bible is also the last. In Beginnings, Meir Shalev reintroduces us to the heroes and heroines of the Old Testament, exploring these and many more of the Bible’s unexpected "firsts." Combining penetrating wit, deep empathy, and impressive knowledge of the Bible, he probes each episode to uncover nuances and implications that a lesser writer would overlook, and his nontraditional, nonreligious interpretations of the famous stories of the Bible take them beyond platitudes and assumptions to the love, fear, tragedy, and inspiration at their heart. Literary, inquisitive, and honest, Shalev makes these stories come alive in all their complicated beauty, and though these stories are ancient, their resonance remains intensely contemporary.

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Narrative Type: Nonfiction

Country/Region of Manufacture: United States

Book Title: Beginnings : Reflections on the Bible's Intriguing Firsts

Item Length: 8.5in

Item Height: 1.1in

Item Width: 5.8in

Author: Stuart Schoffman, Meir Shalev

Original Language: Hebrew

Format: Hardcover

Language: English

Topic: Judaism / History, Biblical Criticism & Interpretation / Old Testament, Jewish

Publisher: Doubleday Canada

Publication Year: 2011

Genre: Religion, History

Item Weight: 16 Oz

Number of Pages: 304 Pages