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"The image of the Golden Calf haunts the commentaries that thread through Leviticus. This catastrophic episode, in which the Israelites (freed from Egyptian slavery and forty days after their momentous encounter with God at Mount Sinai) worship a pagan idol while Moses is receiving the Torah from God on the mountaintop, gives the mostly legalistic text a unique depth and resonance. According to midrashic tradition, the post-traumatic effects of the sin of the Golden Calf linger through the generations, the sin to be 'paid off' in small increments through time. Post-biblical perspectives view this as the diffusion of punishment, as well as a way of addressing the on-going phenomenon of idolatry itself. These after-effects of the Golden Calf incident are imaginatively explored in Avivah Zornberg's magnificent textual analysis. She brings the rabbis of the Talmud, medieval commentators, Hasidic scholars, philosophers, psychoanalysts, and literary masters-from Aristotle and Rashi to the Baal Shem Tov, Franz Rosenzweig, Sigmund Freud, and George Eliot-into her pathbreaking discussion of the nature of reward and punishment, good and evil, Eros and Thanatos, and humankind's intricate and ever-fascinating encounter with the divine"--
"The image of the Golden Calf haunts the commentaries that thread through Leviticus. This catastrophic episode, in which the Israelites (freed from Egyptian slavery and forty days after their momentous encounter with God at Mount Sinai) worship a pagan idol while Moses is receiving the Torah from God on the mountaintop, gives the mostly legalistic text a unique depth and resonance. According to midrashic tradition, the post-traumatic effects of the sin of the Golden Calf linger through the generations, the sin to be 'paid off' in small increments through time. Post-biblical perspectives view this as the diffusion of punishment, as well as a way of addressing the on-going phenomenon of idolatry itself. These after-effects of the Golden Calf incident are imaginatively explored in Avivah Zornberg's magnificent textual analysis. She brings the rabbis of the Talmud, medieval commentators, Hasidic scholars, philosophers, psychoanalysts, and literary masters-from Aristotle and Rashi to the Baal Shem Tov, Franz Rosenzweig, Sigmund Freud, and George Eliot-into her pathbreaking discussion of the nature of reward and punishment, good and evil, Eros and Thanatos, and humankind's intricate and ever-fascinating encounter with the divine"--
Über den Autor
AVIVAH GOTTLIEB ZORNBERG is the author of The Beginning of Desire: Reflections on Genesis (a National Jewish Book Award-winner), The Particulars of Rapture: Reflections on Exodus, Bewilderments: Reflections on the Book of Numbers, and The Murmuring Deep: Reflections on the Biblical Unconscious (a National Jewish Book Award finalist). She lectures widely in Israel, the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom.
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Erscheinungsjahr: | 2022 |
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Genre: | Religion & Theologie |
Rubrik: | Geisteswissenschaften |
Medium: | Buch |
Inhalt: | Einband - fest (Hardcover) |
ISBN-13: | 9780805243574 |
ISBN-10: | 0805243577 |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Einband: | Gebunden |
Autor: | Zornberg, Avivah Gottlieb |
Hersteller: | Schocken Books |
Maße: | 241 x 157 x 32 mm |
Von/Mit: | Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 29.03.2022 |
Gewicht: | 0,638 kg |
Über den Autor
AVIVAH GOTTLIEB ZORNBERG is the author of The Beginning of Desire: Reflections on Genesis (a National Jewish Book Award-winner), The Particulars of Rapture: Reflections on Exodus, Bewilderments: Reflections on the Book of Numbers, and The Murmuring Deep: Reflections on the Biblical Unconscious (a National Jewish Book Award finalist). She lectures widely in Israel, the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: | 2022 |
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Genre: | Religion & Theologie |
Rubrik: | Geisteswissenschaften |
Medium: | Buch |
Inhalt: | Einband - fest (Hardcover) |
ISBN-13: | 9780805243574 |
ISBN-10: | 0805243577 |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Einband: | Gebunden |
Autor: | Zornberg, Avivah Gottlieb |
Hersteller: | Schocken Books |
Maße: | 241 x 157 x 32 mm |
Von/Mit: | Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 29.03.2022 |
Gewicht: | 0,638 kg |
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