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The book discusses the image of the prophet and the role of prophecy in Modern Hebrew Poetry. The first part of the book presents the prophetic archetypal biographies of prophets, heroes and artists in Hebrew and European mythologies. It also examines the historical facts which lead to the departure of the prophet from Hebrew literature following the destruction of the second temple. Finally, it addresses the necessity of reappearance of the prophet in the 18th and 19th centuries in Hebrew thought and literature and provides a short history of that reappearance in Haskala literature. The second part focuses upon three major "prophets poets": Haim N. Bialik, Avraham Shlonski and Uri Z. Greenberg. The book may be of interest to scholars of Literature, Judaism, Philosophy, Science of Religion, Anthropology, Folklore and Rhetoric.
About the author
Reuven Shoham, Ph.D. (1979) in Hebrew Literature, University of Tel-Aviv, is Professor of Hebrew & Comparative Literature at University of Haifa and Oranim - Academic College of Education of the Kibbutz Movement. He has published extensively on Hebrew Literature and on the Prophetic Mode in Modern Hebrew Poetry.
