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For the Love of God
The Bible as an Open Book
Langbeschreibung
For the Love of God is a provocative and inspiring re-interpretation of six essential Biblical texts: The Song of Songs, the Book of Ruth, Psalms, Ecclesiastes, Jonah, and Job. In prose that is personal and probing, analytically acute and compellingly readable, Ostriker sees these writings as “counter-texts,” deviating from convention yet deepening and enriching the Bible, our images of God, and our own potential spiritual lives. Attempting to understand “some of the wildest, strangest, most splendid writing in Western tradition,” she shows how the Bible embraces sexuality and skepticism, boundary crossing and challenges to authority, how it illuminates the human psyche and mirrors our own violent times, and how it asks us to make difficult choices in the quest for justice.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
The Song of Songs : a holy of holies The book of Ruth and the love of the land Psalm and anti-Psalm : a personal interlude Ecclesiastes as witness Jonah : the book of the question Job : the open book
Ostriker, Alicia Suskin
ISBN-13:
9780813545035
Veröffentl:
2009
Erscheinungsdatum:
04.02.2009
Seiten:
184
Autor:
Alicia Suskin Ostriker
Gewicht:
204 g
Format:
203x127x15 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
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