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Bewilderments: Reflections on the Book of Numbers by Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg
Category: Biography Memoir
The newest book in Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg's award-winning series of commentaries on the hebrew bible. The book of Numbers is the narrative of a great failure. What should have been for the Israelites a brief journey from Mount Sinai to the Holy Land becomes a forty-year death march. Both before and af ...Show more
Moses: A Human Life by Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg
Category: History | Series: Jewish Lives
An unprecedented portrait of Moses's inner world and perplexing character, by a distinguished biblical scholar No figure looms larger in Jewish culture than Moses, and few have stories more enigmatic. Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg, acclaimed for her many books on Jewish thought, turns her attention to Moses ...Show more
The Beginning of Desire: Reflections on Genesis by Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg
Category: Judaica
"Winner of the National Jewish Book Award"Since its publication in 1995, "The Beginning of Desire" has opened new pathways in the reading of the Bible. Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg's innovative use of midrash, literature, philosophy, and psychoanalysis draws deeply upon the familiar biblical narratives to p ...Show more
The Murmuring Deep by Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg
Category: Judaica
From one of the most innovative and acclaimed biblical commentators at work today, here is a revolutionary analysis of the intersection between religion and psychoanalysis in the stories of the men and women of the Bible. For centuries scholars and rabbis have wrestled with the biblical narrative, attem ...Show more
The Murmuring Deep: Reflections on Biblical Unconsciousness by Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg
Category: Judaica
Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg informs her literary analysis of the biblical text with concepts drawn from Freud, Winnicott, Laplanche, and other psychoanalytic thinkers to make a powerful argument for the idea that the creators of the midrashic commentary, the medieval rabbinic commentators, and the Hassidic ...Show more
The Particulars of Rapture: Reflections on Exodus by Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg
Category: Spirituality
In her commentary on the book of Exodus--the stories of slavery and liberation, the burning bush, the revelation at Sinai, the golden calf, the shattering of the tablets, the building and consecration of the tabernacle--Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg weaves a magnificent tapestry of classical biblical, talmud ...Show more
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