Word: mattes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
PLAYERS TO WATCH QB Pat McDermott (Sr.), RB Sam Mathews (Sr.), TE Chris Mizell (Sr.), WR Matt Carre (Jr.), OL Don Snyder (Sr.), LB Ric San Doval (Sr.), LB Kory Gedin (Jr.), DB Casey Edgar (Sr.), DB Michael Johns...
PLAYERS TO WATCH QB Jeff Mroz (Sr.), RB David Knox (Sr.), WR Chandler Henley (Sr.), TE Alex Faherty (Sr.), FB Taylor Craig (Jr.), C Ed McCarthy (Soph.), DT Andrew Ralph (Sr.), DE Brandon Dyches (Sr.), SS Matt Handlon...
...road winds like a Talmudic discourse, first one way and then another, up toward Daniel Matt's home in the Berkeley, Calif., hills. "There's a more direct route that my wife likes," admits Matt, 53. "But I find this one more interesting...
That's not surprising. Matt is embarked on a solo journey through one of the most influential--and maddeningly difficult--works in the history of religious literature. After six years of his labor, Stanford University Press has published the first two books of his translation of the Zohar, the wellspring of Jewish mysticism, or Cabala. He will do nine more volumes, all rendered from the Zohar's original Aramaic. The work has received ecstatic advance reviews ("A superbly fashioned translation and a commentary that opens up the Zohar to the English-speaking world," blurbed lit-crit colossus Harold Bloom...
...radical to be accepted without a fabricated imprimatur. An utterly original 1,800-page mix of Torah commentary, parody, erotic poetry, numerology and experimental narrative devices, it crams some 400 subplots into a Chaucer-like tale of a band of traveling sages. The book's form alone, says Matt, is "a challenge to the normal workings of consciousness...