The Nakedness of the Fathers
Biblical Visions and Revisions
New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, [1994]
Format: Book
Description: xv, 260 pages ; 24 cm
Like much twentieth-century feminist writing today, this book crosses the boundaries of genre. Biblical interpretation combines with fantasy, autobiography, and poetry. Politics joins with eroticism. Irreverence coexists with a yearning for the sacred. Scholarship contends with heresy. Most excitingly, the author continues and extends the tradition of arguing with God that commences in the Bible itself and continues now, as it has for centuries, to animate Jewish writing. The difference here is that the voice that debates with God is a woman's.
Contents:
1. Entering the tents -- In the beginning the being -- Entering the tents -- 2. As in myth: The Garden -- The Garden -- Creation -- The brothers -- Survival -- The father's nakedness -- The rainbow -- 3. Myth into legend: The fathers I -- The bosom of Abraham -- Sarah, or defiance -- The opinion of Hagar -- The cave -- Isaac, or laughter -- The opinion of the ram -- Rebecca's way -- Jacob, or the man of touch -- The sisters -- Rachel solo -- The interpretation of dreams.
4. Legend into history: The fathers II -- The nursing father -- The songs of Miriam -- The opinion of Aaron -- History: A Midrash on Sinai -- The Sabbath: Mystery against history -- The story of Joshua -- Judges, or disasters of war -- The redeeming of Ruth -- Hannah, or sons and lovers -- David the king -- The wisdom of Solomon -- 5. Though she delay: The return of the mothers -- Esther, or the world turned upside down -- Job, or a meditation on justice -- Tree of life -- Intensive care -- A prayer to the Shekhinah.
4. Legend into history: The fathers II -- The nursing father -- The songs of Miriam -- The opinion of Aaron -- History: A Midrash on Sinai -- The Sabbath: Mystery against history -- The story of Joshua -- Judges, or disasters of war -- The redeeming of Ruth -- Hannah, or sons and lovers -- David the king -- The wisdom of Solomon -- 5. Though she delay: The return of the mothers -- Esther, or the world turned upside down -- Job, or a meditation on justice -- Tree of life -- Intensive care -- A prayer to the Shekhinah.
Subjects:
Bible. Old Testament -- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Bible and feminism.
Bible and literature.
Feminism -- Religious aspects -- Judaism.
Bible. Old Testament -- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Bible and feminism.
Bible and literature.
Feminism -- Religious aspects -- Judaism.
ISBN:
0813521254
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
SSHC RELIGION Bible Interpret. Ost | Main (Downtown) | Third Level, Selden K. Smith Holocaust Collection | In |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-260).