ISBN: 0813521254

Like much twentieth-century feminist writing today, this book crosses the boundaries of genre. Biblical interpretation combines with fantasy, autobiography, and poetry. Politics joins wit… More...

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. In her introduction, "Entering the Tents, " Ostriker defines the need to struggle against a tradition in which women have been silenced and disempowered - and to recover the female power buried beneath the surface of the biblical texts. In "The Garden, " she reinterprets the mythically complex stories of Creation. Then she considers the stories of "The Fathers, " from Abraham and Isaac to Moses, David, and Solomon - and their wives, mothers, and sisters. In "The Return of the Mothers, " she begins with a radical new interpretation of the book of Esther, includes a meditation on the silenced wife of Job and the idea of justice, and concludes with a fable on the death of God and a prayer to the Shekhinah, the feminine aspect of God. Ostriker refuses to dismiss the Bible as meaningless to women. Instead, in this angry, eloquent, visionary book, she attempts to recover what is genuinely sacred in these sacred texts. bible study and reference,christian books and bibles,criticism and interpretation,criticism and theory,feminist theory,history and criticism,inspirational and religious,judaism,literature and fiction,old testament Judaism, Rutgers University Press<

ISBN: 9780813521251

"Transgressive, devout, poetic, bawdy, Ostriker's book executes a Jewish feminist's contradance with tradition and makes of it an ecstatic celebration". -- Marilyn Hacker, poet … More...

"Transgressive, devout, poetic, bawdy, Ostriker's book executes a Jewish feminist's contradance with tradition and makes of it an ecstatic celebration". -- Marilyn Hacker, poet and former editor of Kenyon Review "The Nakedness of the Fathers belongs on the book-shelf of Jewish feminists beside Plaskow's Standing Again at Sinai". -- Outlook "Ostriker's most sustained effort to interrogate the Hebrew Bible from a feminist perspective". -- Tikkun "Alicia Ostriker combines her talents as poet, essayist, and literary critic in this witty and profound meditation on key narratives of the Hebrew Bible.... It is vital reading for anyone concerned with contemporary women's reimagining of the sacred". -- Cross Currents "All of us who are women poets, idol breakers, and revisionists ... feel a deep kinship to the work of Alicia Ostriker, and a debt as well". -- Eleanor Wilner, a recipient of a MacArthur fellowship and author of Sarah's Gift "An imaginative and spiritual dialogue with characters and narratives of the Old Testament". -- Publishers Weekly The Nakedness of the Fathers: Biblical Visions and Revisions Ostricker, Alicia Suskin / Ostriker, Alicia Suskin, Rutgers University Press<

ISBN: 9780813521251

"Transgressive, devout, poetic, bawdy, Ostriker's book executes a Jewish feminist's contradance with tradition and makes of it an ecstatic celebration". -- Marilyn Hacker, poet and former… More...

"Transgressive, devout, poetic, bawdy, Ostriker's book executes a Jewish feminist's contradance with tradition and makes of it an ecstatic celebration". -- Marilyn Hacker, poet and former editor of Kenyon Review"The Nakedness of the Fathers belongs on the book-shelf of Jewish feminists beside Plaskow's Standing Again at Sinai". -- Outlook"Ostriker's most sustained effort to interrogate the Hebrew Bible from a feminist perspective". -- Tikkun"Alicia Ostriker combines her talents as poet, essayist, and literary critic in this witty and profound meditation on key narratives of the Hebrew Bible.... It is vital reading for anyone concerned with contemporary women's reimagining of the sacred". -- Cross Currents"All of us who are women poets, idol breakers, and revisionists ... feel a deep kinship to the work of Alicia Ostriker, and a debt as well". -- Eleanor Wilner, a recipient of a MacArthur fellowship and author of Sarah's Gift"An imaginative and spiritual dialogue with characters and narratives of the Old Testament". -- Publishers Weekly Media > Book, [PU: Rutgers University Press]<

ISBN: 0813521254

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