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  title info:
    title: Genesis
    sub title: the beginning of desire
  name:
    name part: Zornberg, Avivah Gottlieb.
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: pau
    date issued: 1995
    edition: 1st ed.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xix, 456 pages ; 23 cm.
  abstract: In her first book, Genesis: The Beginning of Desire, based on her immensely popular weekly lectures in Jerusalem, Avivah Zornberg reanimates the ancient characters of the Bible through her lyrical prose and modern sensibilities. Zornberg illumines the inevitable tensions that grip human beings as they search for and encounter God: the disorder that threatens order, the instability that shatters stability. On the one hand, she writes, we are reassured to find our own tensions reflected in these ancient texts. But on the other hand, the midrashic strategy we bring to the texts will not comfort us with a formalized, serenely fixed image of human life, with pious homiletical messages to shore up our insecurities. For the Torah that seemed so accessible is more multi-layered than we knew; it can be approached only by the strenuous and imaginative 'making' of the reader.
  table of contents: Bereshit: The Pivoting Point -- Noah: Kindness and Ecstasy -- Lekh Lekha: Travails of Faith -- Va-Yera: Language and Silence -- Hayyei Sarah: Vertigo - The Residue of the Akedah -- Toledot: Sincerity and Authenticity -- Va-Yetze: Dispersions -- Va-Yishlah: The Quest for Wholeness -- Va-Yeshev: Re-membering the Dismembered -- Mi-Ketz: The Absence of the Imagination -- Va-Yiggash: The Pit and the Rope -- Va-Yehi: The Beginning of Desire.
  note: Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 427-430) and indexes.
  subject:
    title info:
      title: Bible
      part name: Genesis
    topic: Commentaries
  subject:
    topic: Genesis (bijbelboek)
  subject:
    title info:
      title: Genesis
  subject:
    topic: Jüdische Theologie
  classification: BS1235.3 .Z67 1995
  classification: 222/.1107
  classification: 11.41
  classification: BC 6615
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    title info:
      title: Genesis
    name:
      name part: Zornberg, Avivah Gottlieb.
    origin info:
      publisher: Philadelphia : Jewish Publication Society, c1995
      edition: 1st ed.
    identifier: (OCoLC)624031229
  identifier: 0827605218
  identifier: 9780827605213
  identifier: 94040776
  identifier: http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1202/94040776-d.html
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      url: http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1202/94040776-d.html
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 941020
    record change date: 20151203092950.0
    record identifier: in00002812362
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng