For the Love of God: The Bible as an Open BookRutgers University Press, 2007 - 164 páginas Quoting King Solomon’s famous prayer to God at the Temple in Jerusalem, “Behold, the heaven of heavens cannot contain thee; how much less this house that I have builded,” Alicia Suskin Ostriker posits a God who cannot be contained by dogma and doctrine. Troubled by the way the Bible has become identified in our culture with a monolithic authoritarianism, Ostriker focuses instead on the extraordinary variability of Biblical writing.For the Love of God is a provocative and inspiring re-interpretation of six essential Biblical texts: The Song of Songs, the Book of Ruth, Psalms, Ecclesiastes, Jonah, and Job. In prose that is personal and probing, analytically acute and compellingly readable, Ostriker sees these writings as “counter-texts,” deviating from convention yet deepening and enriching the Bible, our images of God, and our own potential spiritual lives. Attempting to understand “some of the wildest, strangest, most splendid writing in Western tradition,” she shows how the Bible embraces sexuality and skepticism, boundary crossing and challenges to authority, how it illuminates the human psyche and mirrors our own violent times, and how it asks us to make difficult choices in the quest for justice.For better or worse, our society is wedded to the Bible. But according to Talmud, “There is always another interpretation.” Ostriker demonstrates that the Bible, unlike its reputation, offers a plenitude of surprises. |
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... God Has Pity,” is from The Selected Poems, translated by Chana Bloch and Stephen Mitchell (New York: Harper & Row, 1986); Amichai, “When I Die,” from Open Closed Open, translated by Chana Bloch and Chana Kronenfeld (New York: Harcourt ...
... God Has Pity,” is from The Selected Poems, translated by Chana Bloch and Stephen Mitchell (New York: Harper & Row, 1986); Amichai, “When I Die,” from Open Closed Open, translated by Chana Bloch and Chana Kronenfeld (New York: Harcourt ...
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... God? And another that celebrates unmarried sex? Our society seems to be wedded to the Bible, for better or worse. But to a highly selective set of texts, not to the whole Bible. Those selected texts, it is assumed, all have the same ...
... God? And another that celebrates unmarried sex? Our society seems to be wedded to the Bible, for better or worse. But to a highly selective set of texts, not to the whole Bible. Those selected texts, it is assumed, all have the same ...
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... God, certainly, but also hints, here and there, of the Divine Mother who was edited out of historical memory. “The past is not dead,” William Faulkner ... God's meaning. Have pinned down the Maker. Caged the Creator. I Introduction 3.
... God, certainly, but also hints, here and there, of the Divine Mother who was edited out of historical memory. “The past is not dead,” William Faulkner ... God's meaning. Have pinned down the Maker. Caged the Creator. I Introduction 3.
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... God who can encourage fewer crusades, jihads, occupations, massacres, and assassinations, and more treaties; a God whose primary metaphors are not hierarchical, imperialistic, and du- alistic; a God to help us survive the nuclear age.2 ...
... God who can encourage fewer crusades, jihads, occupations, massacres, and assassinations, and more treaties; a God whose primary metaphors are not hierarchical, imperialistic, and du- alistic; a God to help us survive the nuclear age.2 ...
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... God is never mentioned once in it; yet the great rabbi Akiba declared the Song “a holy of holies.” By both Jews and Christians, the Song has been interpreted as a sacred text. What happens if we imagine that the Beloved in this poem is ...
... God is never mentioned once in it; yet the great rabbi Akiba declared the Song “a holy of holies.” By both Jews and Christians, the Song has been interpreted as a sacred text. What happens if we imagine that the Beloved in this poem is ...
Contenido
| 9 | |
The Book of Ruth and the Love of the Land | 34 |
A Personal Interlude | 55 |
Ecclesiastes As Witness | 76 |
The Book of the Question | 99 |
The Open Book | 120 |
Afterword | 143 |
Some Further Reading | 147 |
Notes | 153 |
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