Recovering the Lost Jewishness of Christianity with the Gospel of Mark
Presents the story of identity rediscovered. Narrating biblical scholarship as a story of family strife, this book recounts how early Christians dissociated from their Jewish origins and reflects on the spiritual loss suffered by Christianity because of this division.
Commentary Approaches to Cursing Psalms and their Relevance for Liturgy
Psalms that seem to vindicate vengeance and violence are generally omitted from liturgy, as exemplified in most breviaries used by worshipping communities around the world. Although seldom read, the so-called cursing psalms are known to many as their imprecatory passages pose challenges for readers who wish to use the entire Book of Psalms as ......
This book provides an analysis of the politics of victimhood in contemporary Israel and the Palestine. Its insights about victimhood are conceptual, empirical and comparative.
Portrayals of the Holocaust in literature, paintings, and architecture have aroused many ethical debates. How can we admire, much less enjoy, art that deals with such a horrific event? Does finding beauty in Holocaust representation amount to a betrayal of its victims? Brett Ashley Kaplan's Unwanted Beauty meets these difficult questions directly, ......
Understanding Zionism introduces the rise and development of the Zionist movement, its various streams, and the impact of Zionism on government and society in Israel. The book examines special topics, such as the phenomenon of Christian Zionism, movements of opposition to Zionism, and frameworks regarding the future direction(s) of Zionism.
Resisting binary understandings of the human experience, Trauma Talks in the Hebrew Bible calls to attention the fluidity and polyvalency in the Hebrew Bible. Alexiana Fry argues for a more holistic approach in studying texts embracing both the bodies of the past, and our own bodies.
Emotions of Invisibility through the Gaze of Raskolnikov and Bigger
In this book, Samantha Joo argues that Cain's anger and shame in Genesis 4 arise from the social marginalization of the Kenites of whom he functions narratively as an ancestor. In order to understand and experience his emotions, she reads the biblical story through modern analogies from Crime and Punishment and Native Son.
This book engages with cultural memory in literature and other media of the second and third generations of Holocaust survivors who are confronted with language loss, language acquisition and multiple issues of translation of inherited and received cultural memory.
