Shmuel argumenterer for, at Judas ikke forrådte Jesus. Af For husets to faste beboere får det fatale konsekvenser. The reader finds out that she used to be married to Micha, Wald’s only son, who was brutally killed in the War of Independence. Gonna read it in the old Espanhol, though I am sure Raquel Garcia did a good job with the translation.Did you mean to say a version translated from the original Hebrew one? Af He’s not an author I’ve read yet myself, but I am eager to investigate when the time feels right.You are right.

Hans kæreste har forladt ham, og hans usikre universitetsstudier om ”Jesus set med jødiske øjne” fører ikke rigtig til noget. He takes a live-in job as companion to an elderly, incapacitated man, Gershom Wald, who unattractively needs someone with whom to argue. That doesn’t happen often, and obviously this was a good choice to follow the whim.

I am definitely reading Of Love and Darkness some day, hopefully this year.I’ve looked at this book, but been pretty unsure about it.

A nun sitting next to him approached him with tears in her eyes: “But he was so, so sweet, how could you have done that to Him?

Her er mennesker, hvis livsbaner er destineret af den dramatiske Israel/Palæstina-konflikt. The author’s political views have led other Israelis to accuse him of being a traitor. There is a religious aspect as well because he puts forward Judas as a true Christian who wanted Jesus to achieve his glory by being a pawn in ‘God’s will’ rather than a traitor. The attitude of Judaism toward Christ was that of reservation and hatred.

He had been the only member of the Zionist executive committee to oppose David Ben-Gurion (whom he suspected of having a messianic complex) over the foundation of the state of Israel in 1948.Abravanel had developed close links with the local Arab population and advocated instead that Jews and Arabs should live side by side as equals in a country under international control. Working through the book is well worth the time. Shmuel is sympathetic and defines a traitor as this Shmuel tries to prove that Judas is not the traitor as we perceive him to be when he says “ I believe that Judas was the most loyal and devoted of all the disciples and that he never betrayed him, but, on the contrary, he meant to prove his greatness to the whole world.” He validates his point pointing out that Jesus lived during the time when prophets like him were rampant and the State did not bother about them. When this didn’t take place, he sank into despair and committed suicide. Noveller. Forræderen Judas hængte sig i et figentræ: Forsidebilledet af et figentræ på sort baggrund med grønne blade og frugter er virkningsfuldt.Essensen af romanen kan udtrykkes således: Kom ud og oplev verden, Shmuel. Amos Oz Abravnel forms a deep friendship with local Arabs and is seen by the Jewish majority as a traitor, an ‘Arab lover’.

JUDAS By Amos Oz Translated by Nicholas de Lange 305 pp. Dagen er delt op i faste rutiner, og de to beboere både foruroliger og tirrer Shmuel.Man kan vælge at læse romanen som en kort periode i en ung mands udvikling, hvor også et kærlighedsdrama udspilles. I hope you will enjoy it as much as I did.LOL just checked on GoodReads – I think the original is in English (but my GR is set to Spanish), so I got confused and recognized Garcia as a good translator.On a related note, I’m always torn about translations from a non-romance language (such as Mandarin, Hebrew, Arabic, etc) to English or Spanish. I got to know about him recently.

Their explanations may not be entirely convincing, but I find it hard to imagine a novel like that written decades ago, not even by Amos Oz.Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive new posts by email. Judas didn’t betray but instead was transformed.