Welcome to My World: Selected Poems 1973-2013, Prashker David
Автор: Prashker David Название: City of Peace: The Waxing of the Moon ISBN: 0692303057 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780692303054 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 2585.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Everybody knows the legends of King David - the years of persecution by King Saul, the stone that killed Goliath, his friendship with Jonathan, his love for Michal and Bathsheba, the building of Jerusalem, the Psalms, the sons who tried to take his throne. Yet decades of archaeology in Israel have sought in vain for a historical King David, while two centuries of study in Comparative Mythology and ancient languages have found a very different King David from the one presented in the Bible. Now, in this two-part "auto-biography", David Prashker has brought together everything that is known in an account of the life of King David that will often take you by surprise. Book One: The Red-Headed First-Born recounts the first half of the life of King Yedid-Yah (David), the years that brought King Sha'ul to the throne as the first King of Yisra-El: the early years in Beit-Lechem Ephratah (Bethlehem) when he was still Daoud the goat-herd; the anointment by the Prophet Shmu-El; the years in Gilgal and Giv-Yah as a member of the royal choir and as armour-bearer to the King; the slaying of Goliath and his friendship with Prince Yah-Natan; the years of exile and banditry after his marriage to Princess Michal; his first throne as King of Tsiklag; and then the death of Sha'ul that would lead to his becoming King of Yisra-El. Book Two: The Waxing of the Moon recounts the second half of the life of King Yedid-Yah: his seven-year reign in Chevron (Hebron); the conquest of the seven towns that would become the great conurbation of Yiru-Sala'am (Jerusalem); the failed attempt to establish Yeshurun, the spiritual realm; the building of a national confederation, founded in the twelve tribes and the cult of Yah, Yahweh and their ever-dying-ever-reborn son, known as Tammuz, Ba'al, Adonis, or simply as Dodi, the "Beloved Son", or as Daoud, King Yedid-Yah. The stories, too, of his many loves and marriages; the sons who tried to take his throne; his friendship with King Hu-Ram of Tsur (Tyre); the farcical attempt to bring the Ark of the Covenant to Jerusalem. In City of Peace you will encounter David the Psalmist but also Daoud the warrior who was prohibited from building the Temple because his hands were stained with blood. And finally, ending where the novel began, the choice of Shlomo (Solomon) as his successor, and the king's slow, agonising death, impotent and paralysed, still clinging on to power and writing his memoirs as a way of trying to control posterity as well. City of Peace is at once an extraordinary adventure story and a work of profound scholarship. A historical novel not to be missed.
Автор: Prashker David Название: City of Peace: The Red-Headed First-Born ISBN: 0692301755 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780692301753 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 2585.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Everybody knows the legends of King David - the years of persecution by King Saul, the stone that killed Goliath, his friendship with Jonathan, his love for Michal and Bathsheba, the building of Jerusalem, the Psalms, the sons who tried to take his throne. Yet decades of archaeology in Israel have sought in vain for a historical King David, while two centuries of study in Comparative Mythology and ancient languages have found a very different King David from the one presented in the Bible. Now, in this two-part "auto-biography", David Prashker has brought together everything that is known in an account of the life of King David that will often take you by surprise. Book One: The Red-Headed First-Born recounts the first half of the life of King Yedid-Yah (David), the years that brought King Sha'ul to the throne as the first King of Yisra-El: the early years in Beit-Lechem Ephratah (Bethlehem) when he was still Daoud the goat-herd; the anointment by the Prophet Shmu-El; the years in Gilgal and Giv-Yah as a member of the royal choir and as armour-bearer to the King; the slaying of Goliath and his friendship with Prince Yah-Natan; the years of exile and banditry after his marriage to Princess Michal; his first throne as King of Tsiklag; and then the death of Sha'ul that would lead to his becoming King of Yisra-El. Book Two: The Waxing of the Moon recounts the second half of the life of King Yedid-Yah: his seven-year reign in Chevron (Hebron); the conquest of the seven towns that would become the great conurbation of Yiru-Sala'am (Jerusalem); the failed attempt to establish Yeshurun, the spiritual realm; the building of a national confederation, founded in the twelve tribes and the cult of Yah, Yahweh and their ever-dying-ever-reborn son, known as Tammuz, Ba'al, Adonis, or simply as Dodi, the "Beloved Son", or as Daoud, King Yedid-Yah. The stories, too, of his many loves and marriages; the sons who tried to take his throne; his friendship with King Hu-Ram of Tsur (Tyre); the farcical attempt to bring the Ark of the Covenant to Jerusalem. In City of Peace you will encounter David the Psalmist but also Daoud the warrior who was prohibited from building the Temple because his hands were stained with blood. And finally, ending where the novel began, the choice of Shlomo (Solomon) as his successor, and the king's slow, agonising death, impotent and paralysed, still clinging on to power and writing his memoirs as a way of trying to control posterity as well. City of Peace is at once an extraordinary adventure story and a work of profound scholarship. A historical novel not to be missed.
Автор: Prashker David Название: A Pilgrimage to Bayreuth: A Life of Richard Wagner ISBN: 061596141X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780615961415 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 2240.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book is a life of the great composer Richard Wagner, recounted by him, to me, in a conversation that obviously couldn't have taken place, unless you believe in time-travel. But Wagner had already played the trick, so why shouldn't I? In 1839, he wrote an essay-in-the-form-of-a-novel which he called "Eine Pilgerfahrt zu Beethoven - A Pilgrimage to Beethoven"; an entirely imaginary and symbolic pilgrimage of course, given that Beethoven had been dead twelve years already. But what better way to get inside a great man's mind than to invent a dialogue with him and root out from your own guts the words you know he would have used? So I have done with this book. Beethoven was one of Wagner's first heroes, alongside Weber and the poet Heine (whose Jewishness he excused); he later added Schopenhauer and Gobineau to his pantheon. I can't claim that Wagner is one of my heroes, though I do admire his music, and respect the innovations that he brought to the Opera (as Hans Eisler put it, "he was a great composer, unfortunately"). I can't say that I like the man at all, though clearly there must have been something likeable, even loveable, about him, given the number of women who fell slavishly at his feet; the number of men who tolerated their wives' passions for him and continued to support him even during the period of those passions; the number of artists, musicians, aristocrats, politicians and plain ordinary folk who gathered round his charisma as disciples. Yet he was just as clearly a narcissist, a sponger, a misanthrope, a foot-stamping, sulking master of the tantrum, a tyrannical taskmaster and a hedonist par excellence. He treated his first wife dreadfully, acted with spite and contempt towards anyone who didn't hail him as the genius that he knew he was, and expected everyone to provide his needs and expectations with unfailing loyalty, servility and immediacy. His jealousy knew no bounds. His contempt for the French, the Italians, the Germans was only a reflection of his contempt for all Mankind; his anti-Semitism was really no greater than his hatred of any other race or nation that fell short of his exorbitant expectations of humanity - as all inevitably did. Yet he fought in revolutions for the cause of freedom (whose existence he denied), and democracy (which he was opposed to), believed in Love and Purity (both of which he sullied constantly), created masterpieces (most of them flawed), and strove as perhaps no man before or since has ever striven to create a culture and a civilisation in which the highest and most sacred potentials of humanity might be the norm; an bermensch civilisation, which unfortunately manifested itself as National Socialism some years after his death, and claimed him, when he couldn't have defended himself (though he probably wouldn't have wanted to) as its Muse. A mass, in other words, of contradictions, usually (as I've tried to demonstrate) in the same sentence. Could a man truly be a god and a demon at the same time? It seems he could, if his name was Richard Wagner. One of the reasons for undertaking this pilgrimage to Bayreuth was to try to find out.
Описание: "The Book of the Ring" is a prose narrative version of Wagner's "Ring-Cycle", presented here in the form of a novel, in the style and tradition of the greatest romances known to the world. If you have loved the tales of Snow White and Sleeping Beauty, The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, King Arthur and the Dragon, Jason and the Golden Fleece, Tristan and Isolde, you will want to read "The Book of the Ring". All these, and many more of the greatest myths and legends of all time, have their echoes, often their sources, in the Nibelungensaga, a mixture of Germanic and Norse mythology that reached its literary apotheosis in legends of the royal family of the Burgundians around the 5th century. In creating his greatest work, one of the greatest operas of all time, the Festspiel (Music-Drama) in four parts which he called "The Ring of the Nibelungen", Wagner took the original Nibelungensaga as his starting-point, but retold the tale in his own way, changing some names, adding new characters, and providing an ending that has had huge historical ramifications. In "The Book of the Ring", David Prashker has taken Wagner's libretto and stage directions and transformed into prose narrative what is performed as musical-theatre in opera houses all around the world, retelling this extraordinary tale of love and betrayal, of heroism and perfidy, of the rule and the fall of the gods, and of the curse of the ring fashioned from the Rheingold. An essential introduction to one of the greatest works in the history of music. David Prashker's fictional autobiography of Wagner, "A Pilgrimage To Bayreuth", is also available from The Argaman Press.
Автор: Prashker David Название: The Captive Bride: And Other Tales ISBN: 061590923X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780615909233 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 2585.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: "A Myrtle Among Reeds" is a highly personal account of the nature and history of Jewish prayer, rooted in the author's 25 years of experience as a head of Jewish schools, and as a regular prayer-leader. From getting out of bed until the end of Shacharit, Prashker takes the reader on a journey through the whys and hows and whats of every Jewish prayer: their origins, their practices and their different purposes. This scholarly commentary is driven by one guiding question: if the Judaism that has existed for the past 2,000 years was consciously established as a "substitute for the time of exile" by the Talmudic Rabbis, because the Jews had lost their sovereignty in the land of Israel and the Temple was destroyed, why are Jews still "playing the substitute" when the exile has ended? Prashker offers a challenge to traditional Jews, and to those who count themselves as liberal, modern and progressive as well, to re-think Jewish prayer and practice in the light of the establishment of the State of Israel. This book is essential reading for every Jew, and for all who are interested in Judaism, or the act of prayer in any form. No religious school classroom should be without it. "The Day of Atonement", exploring the prayers and rituals of Yom Kippur, provides a sister-volume to "A Myrtle Among Reeds".
Описание: The fast-day of Yom Kippur, known in English as the Day of Atonement, is the holiest in the Jewish calendar. In the sister volume to this book, "A Myrtle Among Reeds", David Prashker explored the history and nature of Jewish prayer through the daily service of worship. Now he continues that journey, exploring the rites and ceremonies, the poetry and legends, that comprise one of the world's oldest known religious practices. This book is essential reading for every Jew, and for all who are interested in Judaism, or the act of prayer in any form. No religious school classroom should be without it.
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