The Unholy Bible: Hebrew Literature of the Time of David to the Beginnings of Greek Influence (1000-300 BC)

By Jacob Rabinowitz

Nonfiction. "Rabinowitz continues his conquest of the ancient world with linguistic scholarship and common sense. His inquiries into the roots of religion and poetry carry him across oceans of... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1570270155
• ISBN13: 9781570270154
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: Autonomedia
• Length: 156 Pages
• Weight: 0.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 4.5" x 6.9"

Customer Reviews

A wonderful exploration of parts of the Old Testament

This is a wonderful book that seeks to point out the influence of post Alexander Greek thought on the Jewish Temple religion - and of course, later Christianity. Those who read the new testament in Greek are well aware that it is nothing like the King James Version. These translations point out some of the distortions in the old testament that have turned people away from the truth of the religion of Moses. This book should be better known, it is truly a wonderful and inspiring work.

Beautiful Translation

I love this book. I am a practicing Jew, and I am not disturbed by the content of this book. I think it is likely that the author himself wouldn't have endorsed the packaging autonomedia gave this text; when you read the introduction you don't sense an author intent on tearing down this text and revealing all the nasty bits (although he certainly won't avoid sexulaity or the various names of the deity). Rather we read the words of a man who believes that these are beautiful texts which have been misrepresented. Rabinowtz works with the skills of a poet. His style is interprative; he will change metaphors to make them more understandable to modern readers. I am especially fond of the text of Ecclesiastes

If you think the bible is wholesome, read this.

Rabinowitz re-translates texts formaly butchered by people such as King James. Starts of with the infamous "Song of Songs", the biblical book of erotic poetry, and moves into Job and Soloman's testomony. Get past the lies and into the dirty little secrets ignored and forgoten by Jewish and Christian scholors, who wanted a purer version of God...