[lit-ideas] Re: The Deeds of Joshua
- From: Omar Kusturica <omarkusto@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2015 13:00:06 +0100
Yericho, as the archaelogists tell us, was destroyed centuries before the
time the Conquest is supposed to have taken place. But this raises
questions as to when the conquest is supposed to have taken place. It was
destroyed at some point and by someone.
I am well prepared to accept that the Conquest did not take place exactly
in the manner described in the Book of Joshua - which was written at least
half a milennium after the purported events - but I am inclined to think
that something like that did happen.
O.K.
On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 12:26 PM, Redacted sender Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx for
DMARC <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> In a message dated 3/3/2015 6:04:30 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,
> omarkusto@xxxxxxxxx writes:
> it is not clear to me why the Jews would have made up the story of the
> violent, brutal conquest of Canaan under Yoshua if no such thing ever took
> place.
>
> In one of his essays, D. Lodge reports that one of his PhD students is
> writing a dissertation (under his supervision) on the influence of T. S.
> Eliot
> on William Shakespeare (I'm paraphrasing: the dissertation is more
> specific, concentrating on a few tropes).
>
> By the same token, one reason for the Joshua episode may be that it would
> provide Haendel an occasion to compose one of his greatest hymns ever!
>
> see the conqu’ring --- hero comes
> sound the trumpets -- beat the drums
> sports prepare --- the laurel bring
> songs of triumph --- to the hero sing
>
> -- Handel, Giosuè: oratorio. Composed between 19 July 1747 and 19 August
> 1747, it premiered on the 9th March, 1748 at the Covent Garden Theatre,
> London.
>
> Not to mention one of the best pictorial representations ever, including
> "La Battaglia di Giosuè contro gli Amoriti" (Nicola Poussin), "Giosuè
> ordina
> al sole di fermarsi sopra a Gibeon" (Martin) and "Giosuè prega Dio per il
> popolo ebraico affinché il sole non venga oscurato, illustrazione"
> (Gustavo
> Doré).
>
> Cheers,
>
> Speranza
>
> KEYWORDS: Hero
>
>
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