Vixens Disturbing Vineyards by Tzemah Yoreh

Vixens Disturbing Vineyards by Tzemah Yoreh

Every reading community has ways of confronting moments of embarrassment in its reading of scriptures. Scripture may be the holy books of religious communities or the foundational texts of civilizations. Contemporary readers of Aristotle who see his writing as foundational for Western philosophy, for example, must confront his views on slavery. This kind of confrontation, whether with religious, philosophical or canonical books of other kinds, may lead readers to reject scripture's claims-or it may motivate them to re-read or misread scripture so as to eliminate, ameliorate or apologize for the problematic passages. Once this misprision has taken place, the formerly ofending scriptures may be re-embraced. A community may also re-embrace scripture by rejecting traditional readings in favor of more originary readings. By entering into that very tension between what Harry Fox calls embarrassment and embracement, the reader experiences the anxiety of a narrative's power over a community. That anxiety is most palpable in the ideological and theological applications of these foundational works. Applications of scriptures have included the exploitation of natural resources and their preservation; genocide and ethnic cleansing as well as the promotion of human rights; slavery and its abolition; homophobia and the acceptance of sexual variation. The essays in this volume honor Professor Harry Fox (leBeit Yoreh). Written in a variety of disciplines, they rethink canonical texts through Fox's rubric, contributing to our understanding of historical and textual moments of embarrassment and embracement. Contributors include Yaakov Elman, Paul Heger, Tirzah Meacham, Yosef Tubi and the late Chana Safrai as well as many students, colleagues and friends of Professor Fox.

"Embarrassment in all its varieties, but also related emotions it shades into at the borders are explored in the Bible, in talmud and midrash, and in medieval and modern interpretationFox himself contributes an essay on the Judaism and genocide: the embarrassment of Jewish jihad. Other topics include a pride of depletion and the ambiguity of address, establishing a sacred church in the New Testament, embarrassment and re-embracement of a midrash on Genesis 2:23, a few interesting cases of rabbinic mindsets within the universal mythic structures of sacred history, making fish for Shabbat, the two layers of thinking and the twofold nature of knowledge in the work of Saadya Gaon, mapping alternate texts of gender difference, and environmental embarrassment in Genesis 1:26-28 versus Genesis 2:15. There are also four Hebrew contributions. No index is provided." -- Annotation ©2010 Book News Inc. Portland, OR
“Every reading community has ways of confronting moments of embarrassment in its reading of scriptures. Scripture may be the holy books of religious communities or the foundational texts of civilizations. Contemporary readers of Aristotle who see his writing as foundational for Western philosophy, for example, must confront his views on slavery. This kind of confrontation, whether with religious, philosophical or canonical books of other kinds, may lead readers to reject scripture’s claims — or it may motivate them to re-read or misread scripture so as to eliminate, ameliorate or apologize for the problematic passages. Once this misprision has taken place, the formerly offending scriptures may be re-embraced. A community may also re-embrace scripture by rejecting traditional readings in favor of more originary readings.” -- Harry Fox, Department for the Study of Religion, University of Toronto

Tzemah Yoreh (PhD, Hebrew University) was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Albright Institute Jerusalem (2006) and Ben-Gurion University (2006-2008). He is currently Assistant Professor of Bible at the American Jewish University.

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ISBN 13	9781934843413
ISBN 10	1934843415
Title	Vixens Disturbing Vineyards
Author	Tzemah Yoreh
Series	Judaism And Jewish Life
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Academic Studies Press
Year published	2010-04-15
Number of pages	690
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