Torah queeries : weekly commentaries on the Hebrew Bible / / edited by Gregg Drinkwater, Joshua Lesser, and David Shneer ; foreword by Judith Plaskow

• Record Nr.: UNINA9911104434203321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, : New York University Press, c2009
• ISBN: 0-8147-8524-7; 1-4416-3154-2
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (350 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): DrinkwaterGregg; LesserJoshua; ShneerDavid <1972->
• Disciplina: 222/.10708664
• Soggetti: Homosexuality - Religious aspects - Judaism; Jewish gay people; Jewish lesbians
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Torah Queeries -- Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Part I. Bereshit -- one. Male and Female God Created Them -- two. From Delight to Destruction: The Double-Faced Power of Sex -- three. Going to and Becoming Ourselves Transformation and Covenants in Parashat -- four. Looking Back to Look Forward Parashat Vayera (Genesis 18:1–22:24) -- five. When Gender Varies: A Curious Case of Kere and Ketiv -- six. Esau’s Gender Crossing -- seven. And Jacob Came Out -- eight. Biblical Sex -- nine. Joseph’s Fabulous Technicolor Dreamcoat -- ten. Yusuf Come Home -- eleven. Forgiveness as a Queer Response -- twelve. Uncovering Joseph’s Bones -- Part II. Shemot -- thirteen. Making Noise for Social Change -- fourteen. Uncircumcized Lips -- fifteen. The Ritual of Storytelling -- sixteen. Into Life: The Humanism of the Exodus -- seventeen. The Necessity of Windows -- eighteen. Laws and Judgments as a “Bridge to a Better World” -- nineteen. Building an Inclusive Social Space -- twenty. When the Fabulous Is Holy -- twenty–one. Mounting Sinai -- twenty-two. Listening to Heart-Wisdom -- twenty-three. A Knack for ; Design -- Part III. Vayikra -- twenty-four. Bodily Perfection in the Sanctuary -- twenty-five. HaNer Tamid, dos Pintele Yid v’ha Zohar Muzar: The Eternal Flame, the Jewish Spark, and the Flaming Queer -- twenty-six. Nadav and Avihu and Dietary Laws: A Case of Action and Reaction -- twenty-seven. Nagu’a: Touched by the Divine -- twenty-eight. It’s the Purity, Stupid: Reading Leviticus in Context -- twenty-nine. How Flexible Can Jewish Law Be? -- thirty. Sex in the Talmud: How to Understand Leviticus 18 and 20 -- thirty-one. Fear Factor: Lesbian Sex and Gay Men -- thirty-two. Neither Oppress nor Allow Others to Oppress You -- thirty-three. “Less Is More” and the Gift of Rain: The Value of Devaluation in Behukotai and Cixous’s Desire-That-Gives -- Part IV. Bemidbar -- thirty-four. How to Construct a Community -- thirty-five. From Impurity to Blessing -- thirty-six. Setting the Stage for Pluralistic Judaism -- thirty-seven. Ruach Acheret—Ruach Hakodesh/ Different Spirit—Sacred Spirit -- thirty-eight. Torah and Its Discontents -- thirty-nine. The Healing Serpent: Recovering Long Lost Jewish Fragments -- forty. Between Beast and Angel: The Queer, Fabulous Self -- forty-one. Pinchas, Zimri and the Channels of Divine Will -- forty-two. Going Ahead -- forty-three. Hearing Ancient, Courageous Voices for Justice and Change -- Part V. Devarim -- forty-four. From Whom Do We Learn History? Why Queer Community Needs Texts More Than Other Communities -- forty-five. Rethinking the Wicked “Son” -- forty-six. Bind These Words -- forty-eight. Setting Ourselves Judges -- forty-nine. To Wear Is Human, to Live—Divine -- fifty. In a New Country -- fifty-one. Embodied Jews -- fifty-two. “Be Strong and Resolute” -- fifty-three. Dor l’Dor -- fifty-four. This Is the Blessing: The “First Openly Gay Rabbi” Reminisces -- Part VI. Holiday Portions -- fifty-five. The Parade of Families -- fifty-six. What Is Atonement? -- fifty-seven. Strength through Diversity -- fifty-eight. Ad de’lo Yada: Until We Don’t Know the Difference -- fifty-nine. Liberation and Transgender Jews -- sixty. Trance and Trans at Har Sinai -- The New Rabbis: -- Contributors -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: In the Jewish tradition, reading of the Torah follows a calendar cycle, with a specific portion assigned each week. These weekly portions, read aloud in synagogues around the world, have been subject to interpretation and commentary for centuries. Following on this ancient tradition, Torah Queeries brings together some of the world’s leading rabbis, scholars, and writers to interpret the Torah through a "bent lens". With commentaries on the fifty-four weekly Torah portions and six major Jewish holidays, the concise yet substantive writings collected here open up stimulating new insights and highlight previously neglected perspectives.This incredibly rich collection unites the voices of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and straight-allied writers, including some of the most central figures in contemporary American Judaism. All bring to the table unique methods of reading and interpreting that allow the Torah to speak to modern concerns of sexuality, identity, gender, and LGBT life. Torah Queeries offers cultural critique, social commentary, and a vision of community transformation, all done through biblical interpretation. Written to engage readers, draw them in, and, at times, provoke them, Torah Queeries examines topics as divergent as the Levitical sexual prohibitions, the experience of the Exodus, the rape of Dinah, the life of Joseph, and the ritual practices of the ancient Israelites. Most powerfully, the commentaries here chart a future of inclusion and social justice deeply rooted in the Jewish textual tradition.A labor of intellectual rigor, social justice, and personal passions, Torah Queeries is an exciting and important contribution to the project of democratizing Jewish communities, and an essential guide to understanding the intersection of queerness and ; Jewishness.

Dictionary of upriver Halkomelem / / Brent D. Galloway

• Record Nr.: UNINA9911105977603321
• Autore: Galloway Brent Douglas
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2009
• ISBN: 9786612360077; 9781282360075; 1282360078; 9780520945180; 0520945182
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (1729 p.)
• Collana: University of California publications in linguistics ; ; v. 141
• Disciplina: 497/.3
• Soggetti: Halkomelem language - English; English language - Stalo
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Dictionary of Upriver Halkomelem -- Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- 1Introduction -- Galloway: Upriver Halkomelem Dictionary Halkomelem to English -- A -- CH -- CH' -- E -- H -- I -- K -- K' -- KW -- KW' -- L -- LH -- M -- N -- O -- Ô -- P -- P' -- Q -- Q' -- QW -- QW' -- R (reduplication) -- S -- SH -- T -- T' -- TH -- TH' -- TL' -- TS -- TS' -- U -- W -- X -- XW -- X -- XW -- Y -- 'OR' -- Galloway: Upriver Halkomelem Dictionary English-to-Halq'eméylem Index -- a -- b -- c -- d -- e -- f -- g -- h -- i -- j -- k -- l -- m -- n -- o -- p -- q -- r -- s -- t -- u -- v -- w -- x -- y -- z
• Sommario/riassunto: An extensive dictionary (almost 1800 pages) of the Upriver dialects of Halkomelem, an Amerindian language of B.C.,giving information from almost 80 speakers gathered by the author over a period of 40 years. Entries include names and dates of citation, dialect information, phonological, morphological, syntactic, and semantic information, domain memberships of each alloseme, examples of use in sentences, and much cultural information.

Space-Filling Curves / / by Hans Sagan

• Record Nr.: UNINA9911150865203321
• Autore: Sagan Hans
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, NY : , : Springer New York : , : Imprint : Springer, , 1994
• ISBN: 1-4612-0871-8
• Edizione: [1st ed. 1994.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (XV, 194 p.)
• Collana: Universitext, , 2191-6675
• Classificazione: 54F50; 28A75; 54-03; 01A55; 01A60
• Disciplina: 516.3/62
• Soggetti: Geometry
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 1. Introduction -- 1.1. A Brief History of Space-Filling Curves -- 1.2. Notation -- 1.3. Definitions and Netto’s Theorem -- 1.4. Problems -- 2. Hilbert’s Space-Filling Curve -- 2.1. Generation of Hilbert’s Space-Filling Curve -- 2.2. Nowhere Differentiability of the Hilbert Curve -- 2.3. A Complex Representation of the Hilbert Curve -- 2.4. Arithmetization of the Hilbert Curve -- 2.5. An Analytic Proof of the Nowhere Differentiability of the Hilbert Curve -- 2.6. Approximating Polygons for the Hilbert Curve -- 2.7. Moore’s Version of the Hilbert Curve -- 2.8. A Three-Dimensional Hilbert Curve -- 2.9. Problems -- 3. Peano’s Space-Filling Curve -- 3.1. Definition of Peano’s Space-Filling Curve -- 3.2. Nowhere Differentiability of the Peano Curve -- 3.3. Geometric Generation of the Peano Curve -- 3.4. Proof that the Peano Curve and the Geometric Peano Curve are the Same -- 3.5. Cesaro’s Representation of the Peano Curve -- 3.6. Approximating Polygons for the Peano Curve -- 3.7. Wunderlich’s Versions of the Peano Curve -- 3.8. A Three-Dimensional Peano Curve -- 3.9. Problems -- 4. Sierpi?ski’s Space-Filling Curve -- 4.1. Sierpi?ski’s Original Definition -- 4.2. Geometric Generation and Knopp’s Representation of the Sierpi?ski Curve -- 4.3. Representation of the Sierphiski-Knopp Curve in Terms of Quaternaries -- 4.4. Nowhere ; Differentiability of the Sierpi?ski-Knopp Curve -- 4.5. Approximating Polygons for the Sierpi?ski-Knopp Curve -- 4.6. Pólya’s Generalization of the Sierpi?ski-Knopp Curve -- 4.7. Problems -- 5. Lebesgue’s Space-Filling Curve -- 5.1. The Cantor Set -- 5.2. Properties of the Cantor Set -- 5.3. The Cantor Function and the Devil’s Staircase -- 5.4. Lebesgue’s Definition of a Space-Filling Curve -- 5.5. Approximating Polygons for the Lebesgue Curve -- 5.6. Problems -- 6. Continuous Images of a Line Segment -- 6.1. Preliminary Remarks and a Global Characterization of Continuity -- 6.2. Compact Sets -- 6.3. Connected Sets -- 6.4. Proof of Netto’s Theorem -- 6.5. Locally Connected Sets -- 6.6. A Theoremby Hausdorff -- 6.7. Pathwise Connectedness -- 6.8. The Hahn-Mazurkiewicz Theorem -- 6.9. Generation of Space-Filling Curves by Stochastically Independent Functions -- 6.10. Representation of a Space-Filling Curve by an Analytic Function -- 6.11. Problems -- 7. Schoenberg’s Space-Filling Curve -- 7.1. Definition and Basic Properties -- 7.2. The Nowhere Differentiability of the Schoenberg Curve -- 7.3. Approximating Polygons -- 7.4. A Three-Dimensional Schoenberg Curve -- 7.5. An No-Dimensional Schoenberg Curve -- 7.6. Problems -- 8. Jordan Curves of Positive Lebesgue Measure -- 8.1. Jordan Curves -- 8.2. Osgood’s Jordan Curves of Positive Measure -- 8.3. The Osgood Curves of Sierpi?ski and Knopp -- 8.4. Other Osgood Curves -- 8.5. Problems -- 9. Fractals -- 9.1. Examples -- 9.2. The Space where Fractals are Made -- 9.3. The Invariant Attractor Set -- 9.4. Similarity Dimension -- 9.5. Cantor Curves -- 9.6. The Heighway-Dragon -- 9.7. Problems -- A.1. Computer Programs 169 A.1.1. Computation of the Nodal Points of the Hilbert Curve -- A.1.2. Computation of the Nodal Points of the Peano Curve -- A.1.3. Computation of the Nodal Points of the Sierpi?ski-Knopp Curve -- A.1.4. Plotting Program for the Approximating Polygons of the Schoenberg Curve -- A.2. Theorems from Analysis -- A.2.1. Binary and Other Representations -- A.2.2. Condition for Non-Differentiability -- A.2.3. Completeness of the Euclidean Space -- A.2.4. Uniform Convergence -- A.2.5. Measure of the Intersection of a Decreasing Sequence of Sets -- A.2.6. Cantor’s Intersection Theorem -- A.2.7. Infinite Products -- References.
• Sommario/riassunto: The subject of space-filling curves has fascinated mathematicians for over a century and has intrigued many generations of students of mathematics. Working in this area is like skating on the edge of reason. Unfortunately, no comprehensive treatment has ever been attempted other than the gallant effort by W. Sierpiriski in 1912. At that time, the subject was still in its infancy and the most interesting and perplexing results were still to come. Besides, Sierpiriski's paper was written in Polish and published in a journal that is not readily accessible (Sierpiriski [2]). Most of the early literature on the subject is in French, German, and Polish, providing an additional raison d'etre for a comprehensive treatment in English. While there was, understandably, some intensive research activity on this subject around the turn of the century, contributions have, nevertheless, continued up to the present and there is no end in sight, indicating that the subject is still very much alive. Therecent interest in fractals has refocused interest on space­ filling curves, and the study of fractals has thrown some new light on this small but venerable part of mathematics. This monograph is neither a textbook nor an encyclopedic treatment of the subject nor a historical account, but it is a little of each. While it may lend structure to a seminar or pro-seminar, or be useful as a supplement in a course on topology or mathematical analysis, it is primarily intended for self-study by the aficionados of classical analysis.