Are there any other worthwhile literary works in Hebrew other than the Tanach?
>>8235169
How To Control The Goys by Isaiah McShekelestien
the Talmud?
Tehilim in case you haven't...
I wouldn't recommend reading the Talmud if you're not Jewish(Israeli Jew speaking)
>>8235219
>I wouldn't recommend reading the Talmud if you're not Jewish
Why? Boring?
Also
>other than the Tanach
>Recommends Psalms
>>8235224
Some editions of the Bible dont contain Psalms, I wrote it just in case.
>>8235219
I am, but religious law doesn't interest me much. I learned a bit of Oral Tora in high school and it was pointless debates about issues that won't matter much to non-religious. I liked the Tanach because of the prose and the stories.
>>8235240
That is correct, even though there are some wonderful gems to be found in the Talmud
Learn old hebrew and write your own
I think more literature has been written in Yiddish (S.Y. Agnon, Sholem Aleichem, etc.)
>>8235517
Yiddish is closer to German than it is to Hebrew
Zohar
as an Israeli secular jew I was exposed to Talmud only in the last two years and was mind blown.
If you want modern literature than I recommend Meir Shalev and Amos Oz (Oz isn't my favorite but I guess he is much translated).
>>8236318
I'm an Israeli secular Jew myself. What blew your mind about the Talmud? And where would you recommend to start with Oz and Shalev?
>>8236318
>10,000 pages
Man, getting through the Old Testament was hard enough...
>>8235219
What is in it (the Talmud)?
>>8236940
Debates between rabbis through the ages.
>>8237040
sounds dialectical
Minotaur, by Benjamin Tammuz
The Torah is way, way better than the New Testament imo.
>>8237683
>Torah
AKA "Why the Jews suck and will be destroyed by God"
>NT
AKA "How Jesus Christ redeems man and restores him to perfection, except Jews, whom are still going to hell"
Great books Tbh
>>8239223
>christian hell
>not the greatest imaginable object of fear
What did the jews talk about? Their god killing babies? at least then those babies wouldn't have to suffer in eternal hellfire like they would under christianity.
The Dream of the Poem
An anthology of the jewish golden age in medieval Spain
>>8239287
http://www.biblestudying.net/cosmo-5.html
Sure, post-revival Hebrew literature has its peaks.
Pioneers like S.Y. Agnon, Jacob Steinberg, Yosef Haim Brenner, Gershon Shofman - are all worth reading.
As for later literature: A. B. Yehoshua, Aharon Appelfeld, Yoram Kaniuk, Yaakov Shabtai, Etgar Keret, Ronit Matalon - are the best throughout the second half of the 20th century and the 21st century in my opinion.
Also, there is some incredible Hebrew poetry, poets like: Hayim Nahman Bialik, Shaul Tchernichovsky, Uri-Zvi Greenberg, Rachel Bluwstein, Natan Alterman, Natan Zach, Zelda, Dan Pagis, Yona Wallach, Wizeltir - Are all great, truly.
I feel like the obscurity of the language makes it hard for the world properly get in touch with Israeli literature, but most writers I listed are incredible in any standard, definitely worth your time if a translation exists.
