For the Love of God: The Bible As an Open BookRutgers University Press, 2009 M04 28 - 192 páginas |
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... Jewish Bible and Jewish tradition , a task I began in 1985. The story of that beginning is told in The Nakedness of the Fathers : Biblical Visions and Revisions , a combination of prose and poetry , midrash and autobiography , re ...
... Jewish Bible and Jewish tradition , a task I began in 1985. The story of that beginning is told in The Nakedness of the Fathers : Biblical Visions and Revisions , a combination of prose and poetry , midrash and autobiography , re ...
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... Jewish mysticism, is the Shekhinah. The question of the Shekhina is central to these poems, as is the question of repressed anger and its consequences. For the Love of God: The Bible as an Open Book approaches the Bible from a more wide ...
... Jewish mysticism, is the Shekhinah. The question of the Shekhina is central to these poems, as is the question of repressed anger and its consequences. For the Love of God: The Bible as an Open Book approaches the Bible from a more wide ...
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... Jew . For Jewish tradition tells us that “ there is always another interpretation . ” I write in the hope that my readers will feel free to engage in their own interpretive acts . Work such as this is essentially collective , and I am ...
... Jew . For Jewish tradition tells us that “ there is always another interpretation . ” I write in the hope that my readers will feel free to engage in their own interpretive acts . Work such as this is essentially collective , and I am ...
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... Jewish, Christian, Muslim—everyone who has the arrogance to believe that we human beings, specks of dust that we are in the cosmos, have plumbed the depths of God's meaning. Have pinned down the Maker. Caged the Creator. I R4340.indb 3 ...
... Jewish, Christian, Muslim—everyone who has the arrogance to believe that we human beings, specks of dust that we are in the cosmos, have plumbed the depths of God's meaning. Have pinned down the Maker. Caged the Creator. I R4340.indb 3 ...
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... Jew, and a poet. I write about the Hebrew Bible because it is my heritage. The men and women in it are my mothers and fathers. Anywhere I look, it offers a mirror of myself. It seems to want me to live more intensely. It is sexual and ...
... Jew, and a poet. I write about the Hebrew Bible because it is my heritage. The men and women in it are my mothers and fathers. Anywhere I look, it offers a mirror of myself. It seems to want me to live more intensely. It is sexual and ...
Contenido
A HOLY OF HOLIES | 9 |
THE BOOK OF RUTH AND THE LOVE | 34 |
A PERSONAL | 55 |
ECCLESIASTES AS WITNESS | 76 |
The Book of thE QUESTION | 99 |
THE OPEN BOOK | 120 |
AFTERWORD | 143 |
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