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Zornberg, Avivah Gottlieb

 
9780385491525: The Particulars of Rapture: Reflections of Exodus
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ISBN 10: 0385491522 ISBN 13: 9780385491525
Editorial: Random House Inc, 2001

Sinopsis

The daughter of a rabbi shares her insights into the rabbinic texts and traditions, delving deeply into the story of Exodus for wisdom about how to live life in the present.

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Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg earned a Ph.D. in English literature from Cambridge University, and worked as a lecturer in the English Department at Hebrew University before turning to the teaching of religion. She has conducted classes in Torah for thousands of students at several different institutions in Israel. She also lectures widely in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom, and holds a visiting lectureship at the London School of Jewish Studies, an affiliate of the University of London.

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erg 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

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Editorial
Random House Inc
Año de publicación
2001
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0385491522
ISBN 13 
9780385491525
Encuadernación
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Número de edición
1
Número de páginas
624
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