Shaping Losses explores how traumatic loss affects identity and how those who are shaped by loss give shape, in turn, to the empty place where something--relationships, family, culture--was and is no longer. Taking the example of the decimation of European Jewry during the Nazi era, Shaping Losses confronts the problem of transforming trauma into ......
Distinguished poet and translator David R. Slavitt here provides a translation of and meditation upon the Book of Lamentations, the biblical account of the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem in 587 B.C.,on the ninth day of the Jewish month of Av--Tish'a b'Av. (Six centuries later the Romans destroyed the second Temple on the same day.) Most of ......
Shaping Losses explores how traumatic loss affects identity and how those who are shaped by loss give shape, in turn, to the empty place where something--relationships, family, culture--was and is no longer. Taking the example of the decimation of European Jewry during the Nazi era, Shaping Losses confronts the problem of transforming trauma into ......
The renewed perception of Judaism's influenceJudaism today is too often thought to represent a religious backwater, a highly particularistic, religion with its own esoteric tales and traditions, practices and norms. First Christians, then Jews themselves, have succumbed to this characterization, resulting in dismissal of Judaism's universal ......
Emphasizes on the role and character of the Torah's transcendent God, as its central protagonist. This book provides a text that uses theistic means appropriate to its time to inspire people toward their worthiest human purposes. It offers insights into the wide-ranging legal code of "Genesis", "Exodus", "Numbers", "Deuteronomy", and "Leviticus".
An analysis of the implications of the Holocaust for interpretation of the Hebrew Bible. The contributors discuss theoretical and methodological considerations emerging from the Shoah and demonstrate the importance of these considerations in the reading of specific biblical texts.
An analysis of the implications of the Holocaust for interpretation of the Hebrew Bible. The contributors discuss theoretical and methodological considerations emerging from the Shoah and demonstrate the importance of these considerations in the reading of specific biblical texts.