Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Uri Hurwitz <uhurwitz AT yahoo.com>]

 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