By Robert Graves, Raphael Patai
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'There is eloquence, wit and a proper shapeliness in abundance from first to last.' - Michael Glover, monetary instances.
'While poetry faculties got here and went, Graves went on writing until eventually his demise in 1985, in a sublime, classically encouraged style.' - Andrew Crumey, Scotland on Sunday.
No one else bargains his targeted blend of eroticism, nightmare and epigram.' - Sean O'Brien, The Guardian.
About the Author
Robert Graves was once the writer of I, Claudius, The White Goddess, and Greek Myths. He used to be a poet, classical student, novelist, and critic. Raphael Patai used to be an anthropologist, Jewish folklorist, and biblical pupil. He was once the writer of guy and the Temple and Jewish Seafaring in old Times.
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This exhaustive exploration of the Hebrew myths and the ebook of Genesis resulted from a amazing collaboration among one pupil raised as a strict Protestant and one raised as a strict Jew. It is going past Christian biblical and Judaic fable and contains midrashes, folks stories, apocryphal texts, and different vague resources to increase and whole the tales. An exciting view of the suppressed and censored pre-biblical bills is the outcome, besides a wealthy experience of a tradition along with oral and literary traditions, the place the religious is deeply rooted in panorama and history.
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MAJ::KOT. A tr~ctate of the Baby/oII;1JI1 Talmud. See B. IANETHO. C. See Mcmet/lo tile Ilistoric/II, 'nle Locb Classical Library. , 1940. MASSFkllET SOFt:IIl~1. e. ). MECIUA. t\ tmcta te of the Baby/olliall Talmud. Sec 13. lolUIIILTA. Mekhi/ta of Rabbi Ishmael, cd. M. Fricdmann, Vienna, 1870. A Tallnaitie midrash on Exodus, primarily intended to elucidate the laws cont~ill ed in Exodus XU- XXIII. D. Quoted by Penta teuchal weekly section and page. TA VIR. SIIIMON. ). Quoted by page of the critical edition by David lJ ofIul3Iln, Frankfurt a.
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