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Roseanne Devon
Amazing service, food was delicious and our meal was served timely. I had the lobster ravioli, with clams and it was divine. The signature limoncello and house wine are on point.
Staff and owner are SO friendly, the atmosphere is very cozy and inviting, I would give the entire experience a 10/10. So good, I made a reservation for tomorrow night!
The food here was great. It definitely has a more upscale feel to it. The lunch and dinner menus are different, and the menus ARE changed weekly. The service and waiter were great, as was the meal. The tiramisu is to die for. ?
True Italian dining experience. Beautiful restaurant with such a wonderful atmosphere. Walter and Candi will make you feel like they are hosting you at their own dining room table. There are no words to describe the food. From the antipasto dish to the desert and everything in between. Breads and deserts are made by their own pastry chef. Banana Foster made table side. Best Italian restaurant in the Tulsa area.
Absolutely fantastic! Atmosphere was wonderful and food was fabulous! Candi and Walter are amazing! Everyone should try them out and be sure and get the Caesar salad and the Italian bread pudding. This place will definitely make you rethink other Italian restaurants authenticity.
Authentic Italian cuisine. Quaint location in the heart of Sands Springs.
Friendly and courteous service. Food was excellent!
Loved the atmosphere! Will definitely go again. The owners made you feel like part of their family.
This authentic restaurant is a diamond in the rough. I cannot believe it is housed in Sand Springs, Ok. Very, very impressive service, atmosphere and the food is divine. We bring all of our out of town guests here and will continue to patronize this establishment. I simply cannot say enough wonderful things about them, they have left no stone unturned!
Large wine list Fine dining Romantic atmosphere Stylish interior Great food Creative cuisine
Had a absolutely fabulous lunch experience . A must go to if you fancy excellent Italian food in a exquisite elegant ambiance. Definitely will return . Great food , great environment, great service
Great food Cozy atmosphere Healthy options
Friendly staff, terrific food, we came in on a motorcycle and was under dressed and did not have a reservation, they seated us anyway, very very good food, I highly recommend them! The owners was terrific!
We love Walter and his family. This is a very special place for any occasion. The service and the food are divine. As members of the Chaine and Mondial this place is so special! Thank you for an awesome night. Besos!
Great food Fine dining Good salad Indoor Dining Great dessert Comfort food Cozy atmosphere Romantic atmosphere Curbside Pickup
My daughter took me to dinner tonight at Little Venice in Sand Springs. I have never been a huge Italian food fan. The food was amazing, the service and atmosphere were awesome. I felt very special and pampered tonight. It was a belated birthday dinner and I was absolutely NOT disappointed. I agree with my daughter. On a scale of 1 to 10, they get a 15.
Absolutely wonderful! The food was exceptional. The service was the best. I rarely comment on Facebook about my experience at a restaurant. It was a wonderful evening. I cannot recommend this restaurant enough.
Owners & Food are AMAZING! Worth the very short drive from Tulsa to get some to-go food. Everything we have tried has been off the charts amazing! From the fresh focaccia bread, salads, main entree and of course dessert! HIGHLY recommend!
What a treat to have such a quaint, authentic restaurant in Sand Springs. We had the table side Caesar salad, Mahi Mahi and Shrimp Linguine. It was cooked to perfection and tasted delicious! The live music was a treat as well!
A 5 star evening with my husband and our daughters. Amazing service, phenomenal atmosphere, and a true taste of Italy. We were wined and dined in the style that we would see in our favorite Tulsa restaurants, but in our quaint town. The food was superior to many and it was accompanied by music as well. This will be a new traditional dining experience for our family. Thank you so much for a lovely evening.
Despite the absence of any formal attribution of the book of Lamentations to the prophet Jeremiah in the Hebrew Bible, the rabbis of the Talmudic period chose to perpetuate and reinforce this idea. The question explored is how this benefited them. Using Jorge Gracia's discussion of the "pseudo-historical author," the influence of the rabbinic assumption of Jeremiah's authorship of Lamentations on their exegesis of the book is explored. The rabbis were troubled by a number of theologically challenging verses and the claim of authorship opened the door to their use of the book of Jeremiah to explain away these difficulties.
Most ancient translations of the Bible explicitly attribute the book of Lamentations to the prophet Jeremiah. The Hebrew Bible leaves the book's author anonymous, yet the rabbis of the Talmudic period for whom the Hebrew texts were sacred scripture adopted and perpetuated the ubiquitous assumption of Jeremiah's authorship. Delbert Hillers (1992:10-11) has appropriately commented:
Jeremiah's authorship is taken for granted. As a result, the question of why the Jewish sages of antiquity actively perpetuated and used this tradition must be asked. How did this serve their agenda?
For the rabbis, this was not simply a case of identifying the author of a biblical book, although, according to Hillers (1992:12) this was a common practice which fulfilled "the natural desire in the early days of biblical interpretation ..." Lamentations was an accepted part of the Hebrew canon and reasserting the claims of Jeremiah's authorship would have unlikely given it additional authority. However, the attribution helped solve a theological problem, on the one hand, and created a clearly defined framework for the interpretation of Lamentations, on the other. Despite Hillers' assertion, the issue was not about filling a need to establish clear authorship. Anthony Grafton (1990:6) has argued convincingly that "In some periods and traditions writers have ascribed religious texts to divine or semidivine figures not because they were preoccupied with matters of authorship but because they wished to stress the continuity of their writings with an original tradition or an orthodox doctrine."3 While the rabbis were not the authors of Lamentations, in assigning pseudo-historical authorship to Jeremiah they stressed the continuity of Lamentations with the "orthodox" understanding of theodicy found in the book of Jeremiah.
The pseudo-historical author is a mental construct that is believed by an audience - or constructed by someone (sometimes the historical author) to lead an audience to believe it - to be the historical author. The pseudohistorical author is a construct of an interpreter who wishes to know more about a text or wishes to pass judgment upon its author.
Texts of literary, philosophical, religious, or scientific works, for example, elicit pseudo-historical authors. The reason is that they are subjects of interpretations or present characteristics of originality and value that lead to the development of propriety interests in them (2002:180).
The argument here is that the rabbis benefited from interpreting Lamentations as if Jeremiah had written it. As an anonymous text in the canon, it may well have raised questions for the rabbis. In general, the rabbis appreciated that Lamentations supported their understanding of theodicy - God rewards the righteous and punishes the wicked according to the rules of the covenant handed down at Sinai. However, a number of verses appeared both cynical and rebellious to them. In promoting Jeremiah's authorship the rabbis created a dynamic in which his credibility and piety as a prophet in Judah was used to vouch for Lamentation's theological acceptability. Likewise, it established a framework for rabbinic exegesis of the text and assured that it was read within specific parameters: (1) Jeremiah and Lamentations, written by the same author, shared a common theology;4 and (2) since Jeremiah was a prophet, Lamentations, like the Book of Jeremiah, was prophetic and foreshadowed future events (e.g., the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 C.E.). Because of the assumed relationship between these books, the rabbis could also mine 2 Chronicles 35-36 where Jeremiah appears for some of the historical data they needed to explain the context of particular passages in Lamentations.
Many of the Hebrew Bible's books include apparent authorship claims: The Song of Songs, which is Solomon's (Cant.1:2); A Song. A Psalm of David (Ps. 108:1); The words of Koheleth Son of David (Ecc. 1:1); The word of the Lord that came to Hosea son of Beeri (Hos. 1:1). Lamentations, however, is anonymous, found in the third section of the Hebrew Bible, the Holy Writings, sometimes following the Song of Songs and preceding Daniel. On other occasions it is grouped with the four scrolls used for specific liturgical purposes (Ruth, Esther, Ecclesiastes, and Song of Songs). Never is the volume found anywhere in proximity to the book of Jeremiah, which appears in the second section of the Hebrew Bible, among the Prophetic books. This is not true of other Bibles. In the Septuagint Lamentations begins with an explicit statement of authorship: "And it happened, after Israel was taken captive and Ierousalem was laid waste, Ieremias sat weeping and gave this lament over Ierousalem and said: How the city sat alone. She who was full of peoples!" (trans. Gentry 2007:935). The Peshitta likewise introduces Jeremiah as the author using a heading reading: "The Book of Lamentations of Jeremiah the Prophet." The Vulgate Lamentations opens:
The attribution is reinforced by the location of Lamentations within the various Bibles. In the Septuagint, it is found following the book of Jeremiah, as if an appendix to it, along with the apocryphal Book of Baruch [Jeremiah's personal scribe] and the Letter of Jeremiah. It is similarly located in the Peshitta and in the Vulgate.
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