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OverviewLike 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Alicia Suskin OstrikerPublisher: Rutgers University Press Imprint: Rutgers University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.454kg ISBN: 9780813524474ISBN 10: 0813524474 Pages: 282 Publication Date: 01 March 1997 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of Contents1. 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. 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 ShekhinahReviewsAlicia Ostriker combines her talents as poet, essayist, and literary critic in this witty and profound meditation on key narratives of the Hebrew Bible. . . .It is vital reading for anyone concerned with contemporary women's reimagining of the sacred. * Cross Currents * All of us who are women poets, idol breakers, and revisionists . . . feel a deep kinship to the work of Alicia Ostriker, and a debt as well. -- Eleanor Wilner * recipient of a MacArthur fellowship and author of Sarah's Gift * Transgressive, devout, poetic, bawdy, Ostriker's book executes a Jewish feminist's contradance with tradition and makes of it an ecstatic celebration. -- Marilyn Hacker * poet and former editor of Kenyon Review * The Nakedness of the Fathers belongs on the bookshelf of Jewish feminists beside Plaskow's Standing Again at Sinai. * Outlook * An imaginative and spiritual dialogue with characters and narratives of the Old Testament. * Publishers Weekly * "Alicia Ostriker combines her talents as poet, essayist, and literary critic in this witty and profound meditation on key narratives of the Hebrew Bible. . . .It is vital reading for anyone concerned with contemporary women's reimagining of the sacred.-- ""Cross Currents"" All of us who are women poets, idol breakers, and revisionists . . . feel a deep kinship to the work of Alicia Ostriker, and a debt as well.--Eleanor Wilner ""recipient of a MacArthur fellowship and author of Sarah's Gift"" The Nakedness of the Fathers belongs on the bookshelf of Jewish feminists beside Plaskow's Standing Again at Sinai.-- ""Outlook"" An imaginative and spiritual dialogue with characters and narratives of the Old Testament.-- ""Publishers Weekly"" Transgressive, devout, poetic, bawdy, Ostriker's book executes a Jewish feminist's contradance with tradition and makes of it an ecstatic celebration. --Marilyn Hacker ""poet and former editor of Kenyon Review""" "All of us who are women poets, idol breakers, and revisionists... feel a deep kinship to the work of Alicia Ostriker, and a debt as well.--Eleanor Wilner ""author of Sarah's Gift"" An imaginative and spiritual dialogue with characters and narratives of the Old Testament.-- ""Publishers Weekly"" Transgressive, devout, poetic, bawdy, Ostriker's book executes a Jewish feminist's contradance with tradition and makes of it an ecstatic celebration. --Marilyn Hacker ""poet and former editor of Kenyon Review"" The Nakedness of the Fathers belongs on the bookshelf of Jewish feminists beside Plaskow's Standing Again at Sinai.-- ""Outlook""" Author InformationAlicia Suskin Ostriker is the author of eight books of poetry, including The Imaginary Lover, which won the 1986 William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America and The Crack in Everything, a 1996 nominee for the National Book Award. Her most recent book of prose is Feminist Revision and the Bible. She teaches English and creative writing at Rutgers University. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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