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• catalog abstract "Like much twentieth-century feminist writing today, this book crosses the boundaries of genre. Biblical interpretation combines with fantasy, autobiography, and poetry. Politics joins with eroticism. Irreverence coexists with a yearning for the sacred. Scholarship contends with heresy. Most excitingly, the author continues and extends the tradition of arguing with God that commences in the Bible itself and continues now, as it has for centuries, to animate Jewish writing. The difference here is that the voice that debates with God is a woman's. In her introduction, "Entering the Tents," Ostriker defines the need to struggle against a tradition in which women have been silenced and disempowered - and to recover the female power buried beneath the surface of the biblical texts. In "The Garden," she reinterprets the mythically complex stories of Creation. Then she considers the stories of "The Fathers," from Abraham and Isaac to Moses, David, and Solomon - and their wives, mothers, and sisters. In "The Return of the Mothers," she begins with a radical new interpretation of the book of Esther, includes a meditation on the silenced wife of Job and the idea of justice, and concludes with a fable on the death of God and a prayer to the Shekhinah, the feminine aspect of God. Ostriker refuses to dismiss the Bible as meaningless to women. Instead, in this angry, eloquent, visionary book, she attempts to recover what is genuinely sacred in these sacred texts.".
• catalog contributor b6936665.
• catalog created "c1994.".
• catalog date "1994".
• catalog date "c1994.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "c1994.".
• catalog description "1. Entering the tents -- In the beginning the being -- Entering the tents -- 2. As in myth: The Garden -- The Garden -- Creation -- The brothers -- Survival -- The father's nakedness -- The rainbow -- 3. Myth into legend: The fathers I -- The bosom of Abraham -- Sarah, or defiance -- The opinion of Hagar -- The cave -- Isaac, or laughter -- The opinion of the ram -- Rebecca's way -- Jacob, or the man of touch -- The sisters -- Rachel solo -- The interpretation of dreams".
• catalog description "4. Legend into history: The fathers II -- The nursing father -- The songs of Miriam -- The opinion of Aaron -- History: A Midrash on Sinai -- The Sabbath: Mystery against history -- The story of Joshua -- Judges, or disasters of war -- The redeeming of Ruth -- Hannah, or sons and lovers -- David the king -- The wisdom of Solomon -- 5. Though she delay: The return of the mothers -- Esther, or the world turned upside down -- Job, or a meditation on justice -- Tree of life -- Intensive care -- A prayer to the Shekhinah.".
• catalog description "In her introduction, "Entering the Tents," Ostriker defines the need to struggle against a tradition in which women have been silenced and disempowered - and to recover the female power buried beneath the surface of the biblical texts. In "The Garden," she reinterprets the mythically complex stories of Creation. Then she considers the stories of "The Fathers," from Abraham and Isaac to Moses, David, and Solomon - and their wives, mothers, and sisters. In "The Return of the Mothers," she begins with a radical new interpretation of the book of Esther, includes a meditation on the silenced wife of Job and the idea of justice, and concludes with a fable on the death of God and a prayer to the Shekhinah, the feminine aspect of God. Ostriker refuses to dismiss the Bible as meaningless to women. Instead, in this angry, eloquent, visionary book, she attempts to recover what is genuinely sacred in these sacred texts.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-260).".
• catalog description "Like much twentieth-century feminist writing today, this book crosses the boundaries of genre. Biblical interpretation combines with fantasy, autobiography, and poetry. Politics joins with eroticism. Irreverence coexists with a yearning for the sacred. Scholarship contends with heresy. Most excitingly, the author continues and extends the tradition of arguing with God that commences in the Bible itself and continues now, as it has for centuries, to animate Jewish writing. The difference here is that the voice that debates with God is a woman's.".
• catalog extent "xv, 260 p. ;".
• catalog identifier "0813521254 :".
• catalog issued "1994".
• catalog issued "c1994.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press,".
• catalog subject "221.6/082 20".
• catalog subject "BS680.W7 O88 1994".
• catalog subject "Bible and feminism.".
• catalog subject "Bible and literature.".
• catalog subject "Bible. Old Testament Criticism, interpretation, etc.".
• catalog subject "Feminism Religious aspects Judaism.".
• catalog tableOfContents "1. Entering the tents -- In the beginning the being -- Entering the tents -- 2. As in myth: The Garden -- The Garden -- Creation -- The brothers -- Survival -- The father's nakedness -- The rainbow -- 3. Myth into legend: The fathers I -- The bosom of Abraham -- Sarah, or defiance -- The opinion of Hagar -- The cave -- Isaac, or laughter -- The opinion of the ram -- Rebecca's way -- Jacob, or the man of touch -- The sisters -- Rachel solo -- The interpretation of dreams".
• catalog tableOfContents "4. Legend into history: The fathers II -- The nursing father -- The songs of Miriam -- The opinion of Aaron -- History: A Midrash on Sinai -- The Sabbath: Mystery against history -- The story of Joshua -- Judges, or disasters of war -- The redeeming of Ruth -- Hannah, or sons and lovers -- David the king -- The wisdom of Solomon -- 5. Though she delay: The return of the mothers -- Esther, or the world turned upside down -- Job, or a meditation on justice -- Tree of life -- Intensive care -- A prayer to the Shekhinah.".
• catalog title "The nakedness of the fathers : biblical visions and revisions / by Alicia Suskin Ostriker.".
• catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
• catalog type "text".