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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O.T.—Criticism, interpretation, etc. I. Title. BS680.W70875 2007 221.6'082—dc22 2007005965 A British Cataloging-in-Publication record for this book is available from the British Library. Copyright © 2007 by Alicia Suskin Ostriker All ...
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 grateful to ...
... A Feminist Companion to the Bible, Second Series edited by Athalya Brenner and Carole R. Fontaine (Sheffield, Eng.: Sheffield Academic Press, 2000); “The Book of Ruth and the Love of the Land,” in Biblical Interpretation 10.4.
And, of course, I read and write about the Bible because the texts are infinitely rich, provocative, various, and beautiful, so that to read is happiness, and to attempt interpretation is a further happiness. For the more one looks, ...
With luck, readers will instantly begin interpreting for themselves. My title, For the Love of God, points two ways: it can be either an utterance of explosive exasperation, or one of devotion. When Moses at Sinai begs God, “'Oh, ...
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| 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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| Título | For the Love of God: The Bible as an Open Book |
| Autor | Alicia Ostriker |
| Editor | Rutgers University Press, 2009 |
| ISBN | 0813548721, 9780813548722 |
| Largo | 164 páginas |
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