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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I write about the Bible as a woman, a 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.
The Book of Ruth, which I look at next, also centers around love, and is profoundly woman-centered, but here we see a turn toward political issues. Why is it that this story could take place only in peacetime?
(5.14–15) The man is sometimes a shepherd, sometimes a king, while the woman is at times an enclosed garden, at times a princess, at times “my myrrh with my spice . . . my honeycomb with my honey . . . my wine with my milk” (5.1).
Finally, I want to suggest that 5.2–8, a uniquely painful episode in the Song, may be read as a poem of women's spiritual yearning, our exclusion by tradition, and a plea for inclusion that appeals not only to desire but also to justice ...
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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 Suskin Ostriker |
| Editor | Rutgers University Press, 2007 |
| ISBN | 0813548721, 9780813548722 |
| Largo | 164 páginas |
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