{"product_id":"the-people-of-the-song-yael-sela-9789004536494","title":"The People of the Song: Biblical Poetry, Translation, and the Reception of Moses Mendelssohn in the Berlin Haskalah","description":"When, in 1783, Moses Mendelssohn's German Psalms translation was published in Berlin, forward-thinking ideologues of Jewish cultural revival rendered its translator a redeemer of the songs of King David from exilic desolation. The People of the Song is the first study to examine Mendelssohn's conception of biblical Hebrew poetry as a particular manifestation of Judaism's universalism. The author traces how it helped forge a new foundational narrative that imagined Israel's covenant with God in sacred song, not in revealed law, portrayed King David as a bard, not a military leader, and envisioned national redemption of modern Jews as an aesthetic, not a political, revival.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Yael Sela\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 9004536493\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9789004536494\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Brill\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/20\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 192\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"Yael Sela","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46721576927487,"sku":"9789004536494","price":125.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_7549d27a-64a4-46e8-b770-40aee286d6ef.jpg?v=1742753278","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-people-of-the-song-yael-sela-9789004536494","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}