Does David Still Play Before You? explores the ways that
contemporary Israeli poets have made use of images from the Bible
in their poetry. Through close readings of fifty poems, featured in
their original Hebrew and in English translation, David Jacobson
studies how Israeli poets respond to and incorporate the Bible in
their work and reflect on the presence of the Bible in contemporary
Israeli culture. The book provides a stunning collection of
powerful and moving voices. Jacobson organizes the works according
to subjects that recur with great frequency in Israeli poetry based
on the Bible: the Arab-Israel conflict, responses to the Holocaust,
relations between men and women, and modern challenges to
traditional religious faith. Jacobson's literary analysis is
informed by an astute awareness of the role of the Bible in Israeli
culture. This volume is the first comprehensive study of the use of
the Bible by Israeli poets, a phenomenon that is central to the
development of Israeli poetry.
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