Epic of Gilgamesh (Rev 1997) (PB)
The longing stretches toward the infinite...the reluctant embrace of the temporal....This is the eternal lot of mankind. This is The Epic of Gilgamesh. Literature's first chronicle of search for meaning was born in the Cradle of Civilization over 4,000 years ago.\ Jackson's poetic rendition of humanity's first epic captures the passion and pathos of the search for the province and parameters of human existence, including an account of a great flood, Paradise lost, man's relationship with gods...
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The longing stretches toward the infinite...the reluctant embrace of the temporal....This is the eternal lot of mankind. This is The Epic of Gilgamesh. Literature's first chronicle of search for meaning was born in the Cradle of Civilization over 4,000 years ago.Jackson's poetic rendition of humanity's first epic captures the passion and pathos of the search for the province and parameters of human existence, including an account of a great flood, Paradise lost, man's relationship with gods and goddesses, and the inevitability of mortality.
\ BooknewsThis English-Hebrew volume contains two translations of one, the English verse version by poet Danny P. Jackson, and the other in Hebrew by poet Saul Tchernichoskytogether with 14 color reproductions of Raban's previously unpublished paintings illustrating the myth. It also contains an essay on the psycho-existential dimensions of this ancient-modern hero by clinical psychologist and myth scholar David S. Kahn; an essay by classical scholar James G. Keenana guide to the epic's themes and narrative forms and types; and a commentary by art historian Gideon Ofrat on Raban's work. This oversize book (9.25x14
