The Beginning of Desire - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Beginning of Desire write by Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg. This book was released on 2011-02-01. The Beginning of Desire available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD WINNER • A brilliant interpretation of familiar biblical narratives that "deserves to be the most widely read book on the Bible in years, perhaps decades." (Jewish Exponent). Since its publication in 1995, The Beginning of Desire has opened new pathways in the reading of the Bible. Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg’s innovative use of midrash, literature, philosophy, and psychoanalysis draws deeply upon the familiar biblical narratives to produce interpretations that are at once startlingly beautiful and completely authentic. Illuminating the tensions that grip human beings as they search for an encounter with God, Zornberg gives us a brilliant analysis of the stories of Adam and Eve; Noah; Abraham and Sarah; Isaac and Rebecca; Jacob, Rachel, and Leah; and Joseph and his brothers.
Genesis
Genesis - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Genesis write by Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg. This book was released on 1995. Genesis available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "An intellectually stimulating and personally uplifting exploration of Genesis. Genesis: the Beginning of Desire breathes new life into the stories of Adam and Eve, Noah, Abraham and Sarah, Isaac, Jacob and Esau, Rachel, and Joseph. Zornberg brings biblical, midrashic, and literary sources together, weaving them into a seamless tapestry and illuminating the tensions that grip human beings as they search for and encounter God."--Publisher description
Genesis: the Beginning of Desire [by] Aviva Gottlieb Zornberg
Genesis: the Beginning of Desire [by] Aviva Gottlieb Zornberg - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Genesis: the Beginning of Desire [by] Aviva Gottlieb Zornberg write by Judith Kates. This book was released on 1995. Genesis: the Beginning of Desire [by] Aviva Gottlieb Zornberg available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Particulars of Rapture
The Particulars of Rapture - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Particulars of Rapture write by Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg. This book was released on 2011-02-01. The Particulars of Rapture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Avivah Zornberg grew up in a world of rabbinic tradition and scholarship and received a Ph.D. in English literature from Cambridge University. The Particulars of Rapture, the sequel to her award-winning study of the Book of Genesis, takes its title from a line by the American poet Wallace Stevens about the interdependence of opposite things, such as male and female, and conscious and unconscious. To her reading of the familiar story of the Israelites and their flight from slavery in Egypt, Avivah Zornberg has brought a vast range of classical Jewish interpretations and Midrashic sources, literary allusions, and ideas from philosophy and psychology. Her quest in this book, as she writes in the introduction, is "to find those who will hear with me a particular idiom of redemption," who will hear "within the particulars of rapture . . . what cannot be expressed." Zornberg's previous book, The Beginning of Desire: Reflections on Genesis, won the National Jewish Book Award for nonfiction in 1995 and has become a classic among readers of all religions. The Particulars of Rapture will enhance Zornberg's reputation as one of today's most original and compelling interpreters of the biblical and rabbinic traditions.
Bewilderments
Bewilderments - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Bewilderments write by Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg. This book was released on 2017-09-05. Bewilderments available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Through the magnificent literary, scholarly, and psychological analysis of the text that is her trademark, Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg tackles the enduring puzzlement of the book of Numbers. What should have been for the Israelites a brief journey from Mount Sinai to the Holy Land becomes a forty-year death march. Both before and after the devastating report of the Spies, the narrative centers on the people's desire to return to slavery in Egypt. At its heart are speeches of complaint and lament. But in the narrative of the book of Numbers that is found in mystical and Hasidic sources, the generation of the wilderness emerges as one of extraordinary spiritual experience, fed on miracles and nurtured directly by God: a generation of ecstatic faith, human partners in an unprecedented conversation with the Deity. Drawing on kabbalistic sources, the Hasidic commentators depict a people who transcend prudent considerations in order to follow God into the wilderness, where their spiritual yearning comes to full expression. Is there a way to integrate this narrative of dark murmurings, of obsessive fantasies of a return to Egypt, with the celebration of a love-intoxicated wilderness discourse? What effect does the cumulative trauma of slavery, the miracles of Exodus, and the revelation at Sinai have on a nation that is beginning to speak? In Bewilderments, one of our most admired biblical commentators suggests fascinating answers to these questions.
