Does David Still Play Before You?

Israeli Poetry and the Bible

By: David C. Jacobson

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Hardcover | 1 June 1997

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Does David Still Play Before You? explores the ways that contemporary Israeli poets have made use of images from the Bible in their poetry.

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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Jacobson's Does David Still Play Before You? is a bold venture in criticism since it treats a major aspect of modern Hebrew poetry, its Biblical resonances, yet goes far beyond the routine evocation of 'Biblical allusions.' Like any study of intertextuality, it demonstrates how cultural texts of the past are appropriated and assimilated in modern creative works . . . The selection of poems studied is dazzling in its richness and variety. The volume is a tour de force.--Arnold J. Band "Professor of Hebrew and Comparative Literature, UCLA "

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Acknowledgments	p. 9
Author's Note	p. 13
A Note on Translation and Transliteration	p. 15
Introduction: The Torah of Moses, Not the Torah of David: Biblical Allusion Poetry in its Cultural Context	p. 17
The Pilot and the Man Under the Fig Tree: Israelis and the Bible	p. 39
There Were No More Davids: Responding to the Arab-Israeli Conflict	p. 82
It Is I Who Am Slaughtered My Son: Those Who Experienced the Holocaust and those Who Did Not	p. 139
Eve Knew What was Hidden in the Apple: Men and Women in Ancient and Modern Israel	p. 167
But Such is Heaven's Way and Maybe Nature's Way as Well: Secular Israelis and Religious Faith	p. 205
Conclusion: Saul Would Find Relief and the Evil Spirit Would Leave Him: Biblical Allusion Poetry and the Search for Meaning	p. 241
Notes	p. 247
Bibliography	p. 267
Index of Names and Subjects	p. 275
Index of Biblical Passages	p. 281
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