Genesis : the beginning of desire /
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 th...
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Philadelphia :
Jewish Publication Society,
[1995]
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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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.