Fighting with God

Author: Chen Mingdao
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Publish Date: 2005-01-01
Features: Academic retreats from genealogical examples, professionalism rises in narration, leaving only the soul chasing the ebb and flow of Jewish history and Jewish life tides. This book, with its poignant poetic language and highly condensed prose style, "narrates calmly" the special fate of the Jews and their music. As a Chinese scholar writing Jewish music history, the author sets aside "intimidating musical analysis" and gathers Jewish music into the history and customs of the Jewish nation filled with suffering and miracles. The long genealogy of prophets, saints, priests, seers, kings, heroes, and poets of the Jewish nation, along with their heart-wrenching tragic stories, are shrouded in the polyphonic atmosphere of dirges and pastoral songs. Bones turn to moonlight, blood dissolves into evening clouds, and the endless demise of life is pressed together into the dawn light of the heavens opening wide...