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The Song of Songs: A New Translation With an Introduction and Commentary
The Song of Songs A New Translation With an Introduction and Commentary Author:Ariel Bloch Poetry. Religious Studies. "Chana and Ariel Bloch's new translation of THE SONG OF SONGS is quite simply the best version in the English language. Its poetic voice, intimate, dignified, and informed by meticulous scholarship, carries us into the Eden of the orginal Hebrew text: a world in which the sexual awakening of two unmarried lovers is cle... more »lbrated with a sensuality and a richness of music that are thrilling beyond words." -- Stephen Mitchell. "(A) masterpiece has just appeared in America... This is Chana and Ariel Bloch's beautiful translation of THE SONG OF SONGS, with the English and the Hebrew on facing pages, an informative introduction, wonderfully interesting notes, and a thought-provoking afterword by Robert Alter" --Gabriel Josipovici, The Times Literary Supplement (London). Chana Bloch is author of the poetry collection THE PAST KEEPS CHANGING (Sheep Meadow Press). She teaches at Mills College. Ariel Bloch is Professor Emeritus of Near Eastern Studies at the University of California at Berkeley.« less