For the love of God : the Bible as an open book
"For the Love of God is a 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."--BOOK JACKET
Print Book, English, ©2007
Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, N.J., ©2007
Criticism, interpretation, etc
xii, 164 pages ; 23 cm
9780813542003, 9780813545035, 0813542006, 081354503X
85162011
The Song of Songs : a holy of holies
The book of Ruth and the love of the land
Psalm and anti-Psalm : a personal interlude
Ecclesiastes as witness
Jonah : the book of the question
Job : the open book
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