The Soviet Publishing House for scholarly books, Nauka, has published a new translation of the “Song of Songs” and plans to publish soon a catalog of Hebrew manuscripts in the Leningrad library, it was reported here from Moscow.
The new translation was prepared by Prof. Igor Diakonov. His introduction deals with the character of ancient Hebrew poetry. The volume appeared in an edition of 50, 000 copies. The first volume of the forthcoming catalog, created for specialists in oriental studies, will be compiled by Joseph Ginzburg.
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