Messengers of God : biblical portraits and legends
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TextNew York Summit Books c1976Description: xiv, 237p.; bibliogContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 067154134X
- BM516.5 .W5413 1985
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Translation of: C�l�bration biblique.. Reprint. Originally published: New York : Random House, c1976.. 'Translated from the French by Marion Wiesel.'
Adam, or the mystery of the beginning. Parables and sayings I. Cain and Abel -- the first genocide. Parables and sayings II. The sacrifice of Isaac -- a survivor's story. Parables and sayings III. And Jacob fought the angel. Parables and sayings IV. Joseph, or the education of a tzaddik. Parables and sayings V. Moses -- portrait of a leader. Parables and sayings VI. Job -- our contemporary
'And so, faithful to his promise, the storyteller does nothing but tell the tale: he transmits what he received, he returns what was entrusted to him. His story does not begin with his own; it is fitted into the memory that is the living tradition of his people. The legends he brings back are the very ones we are living today.'
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