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Indlæser... The particulars of Rapture: reflections on exodus (udgave 2001)af Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg
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Bliv medlem af LibraryThing for at finde ud af, om du vil kunne lide denne bog. Der er ingen diskussionstråde på Snak om denne bog. Zornberg's beautifully written reading of Exodus is at the same time a reading of reading, a reading of writing, and a remarkably effective engagement with both midrashic and psychoanalytic traditions. It is likely to prove a challenging introduction for general readers, drawing as it does on a spectacular array of literary sources, centuries of interpretation, and a complex biblical text that, like Zornberg, delights in playing with fire; but readers who take up the challenge will be richly rewarded. Readers who appreciate the creative fire at the heart of poetic language will find much to savor here—and they may be startled by the lyrical power of the familiar text on which Zornberg's meditation is based. They will come away with a better understanding of Exodus, certainly, but also of midrash, of psychoanalytic contributions to the study of language and narrative, and of a tradition of Jewish mysticism that is unsurpassed in its appreciation of the creative power to see (in an image borrowed, like Zornberg's title, from Wallace Stevens) "nothing that is not there and the nothing that is." ingen anmeldelser | tilføj en anmeldelse
Avivah Zornberg grew up in a world of rabbinic tradition and scholarship and received a Ph.D. in English literature from Cambridge University.The Particulars of Rapture, the sequel to her award-winning study of the Book of Genesis, takes its title from a line by the American poet Wallace Stevens about the interdependence of opposite things, such as male and female, and conscious and unconscious. To her reading of the familiar story of the Israelites and their flight from slavery in Egypt, Avivah Zornberg has brought a vast range of classical Jewish interpretations and Midrashic sources, literary allusions, and ideas from philosophy and psychology. Her quest in this book, as she writes in the introduction, is "to find those who will hear with me a particular idiom of redemption," who will hear "within the particulars of rapture . . . what cannot be expressed." Zornberg's previous book,The Beginning of Desire:Reflections on Genesis, won the National Jewish Book Award for nonfiction in 1995 and has become a classic among readers of all religions.The Particulars of Rapturewill enhance Zornberg's reputation as one of today's most original and compelling interpreters of the biblical and rabbinic traditions. No library descriptions found. |
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