The Nakedness of the Fathers: Biblical Visions and Revisions

Sampul Depan
Rutgers University Press, 1994 - 260 halaman
Like 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.

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The Garden
19
Creation
29
The Brothers
35
The Fathers Nakedness
43
The Bosom of Abraham
49
Sarah or Defiance
67
The Opinion of Hagar
73
Isaac or Laughter
81
A Midrash on Sinai
151
Judges or Disasters of War
159
The Redeeming of Ruth
169
Hannah or Sons and Lovers
177
David the King
183
The Wisdom of Solomon
205
Esther or the World Turned Upside Down
219
Job or a Meditation on Justice
231

The Opinion of the Ram
89
The Sisters
105
The Nursing Father
121
The Songs of Miriam
145
Tree of Life
241
A Prayer to the Shekhinah
253
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Alicia 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.

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