LEADER 03188nam 2200517 a 450 001 9910956335603321 005 20251117082615.0 010 $a0-8135-4872-1 035 $a(CKB)2550000000019104 035 $a(OCoLC)649912094 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10393239 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3032156 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3032156 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10393239 035 $a(OCoLC)923690039 035 $a(BIP)1091480 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000019104 100 $a20070215d2007 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aFor the love of God $ethe Bible as an open book /$fAlicia Suskin Ostriker 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aNew Brunswick, N.J. $cRutgers University Press$dc2007 215 $a1 online resource (179 p.) 311 08$a0-8135-2125-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [147]-164). 327 $aThe Song of Songs : a holy of holies -- The book of Ruth and the love of the land -- Psalm and anti-Psalm : a personal interlude -- Ecclesiastes as witness -- Jonah : the book of the question -- Job : the open book. 330 $aLike 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. 606 $aBible and feminism 606 $aBible and literature 606 $aFeminism$xReligious aspects$xJudaism 615 0$aBible and feminism. 615 0$aBible and literature. 615 0$aFeminism$xReligious aspects$xJudaism. 676 $a221.6/082 700 $aOstriker$b Alicia$0458267 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910956335603321 996 $aFor the love of God$94473660 997 $aUNINA