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  • From: Uri Hurwitz <uhurwitz AT yahoo.com>
  • To: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [b-hebrew] Biblical Hebrew, the literay aspect
  • Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2009 07:47:50 -0700 (PDT)

 

The powerful and beautiful language in which the original authors expressed
themselves has continued to influence future Hebrew writers from the days of
its composition and redaction - wherever they took place - to the present.


May I recommend here, as I did here in the past, two entertaining works
which are separated by many centuries both from biblical times and from each
other.

  The first is a medieval author who, with many others, produced great works
of Hebrew literature in Spain, considered by many 'the golden age' of post
biblical literature. This is 'Tahkemoni' by Yehudah al-Harizi, an
entertaining collection of chapters on assorted themes in rhymed prose.

The second is by the nineteenth-twentieth century Chaim Nahman Bialik.
In a volume entitled 'Wayehi Hayom', written in biblical style, he collected
and reworked various stories and legends, many based on folk tales. Many 
deal with kings David and Solomon.

Clearly these are personal choices.

Uri Hurwitz

 

















  • [b-hebrew] Biblical Hebrew, the literay aspect, Uri Hurwitz, 09/03/2009

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