For the Love of God: The Bible as an Open BookChoice Outstanding Academic Title of 2008 Alicia Ostriker named to Moment Magazine's list of Ten Great Jewish Poets, 2011 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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In 2002 I published a volume of poems, The Volcano Sequence, which in a sense picked up where Nakedness left off, recording a piecemeal attempt to locate the Divine in my own life and in the life of my ...
Yet an extraordinary wealth of alternative ideas and possibilities exists, scattered throughout the biblical texts—ideas and possibilities that either question divine authority, or re-define it, or ignore it altogether.
A Father 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 remarked in his Nobel Prize speech; “it is not even past.
... because Akiva is himself a romantically pastoral figure in Jewish legend, an unlettered shepherd loved by the landowner's daughter, yet he is also our preeminent mystic, able to ascend to the divine worlds and re- main unharmed.
As Patai somewhat coyly notes, “the scriptural libretto for those proceedings in which earthlings emulated and stimulated the divine bride and groom . . . was, and continues to be, most appropriately, the Sublime Song of Love ascribed ...
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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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| Título | For the Love of God: The Bible as an Open Book |
| Autor | Alicia Suskin Ostriker |
| Editor | Rutgers University Press, 2007 |
| ISBN | 0813548721, 9780813548722 |
| Largo | 164 páginas |
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