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For the Love of God: The Bible as an Open Book

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Description for For the Love of God: The Bible as an Open Book Paperback. .
Quoting King Solomon’s famous prayer to God at the Temple in Jerusalem, “Behold, the heaven of heavens cannot contain thee; how much less this house that I have builded,” Alicia Suskin Ostriker posits a God who cannot be contained by dogma and doctrine.  Troubled by the way the Bible has become identified in our culture with a monolithic authoritarianism, Ostriker focuses instead on the extraordinary variability of Biblical writing.

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 ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Rutgers University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
184
Place of Publication
New Brunswick NJ, United States
ISBN
9780813545035
SKU
V9780813545035
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-1

About Alicia Suskin Ostriker
Alicia Suskin Ostriker is an award-winning poet, critic, and midrashist, whose writing appears in many Jewish anthologies and journals. She is the author of The Nakedness of the Fathers: Biblical Visions and Revisions (Rutgers University Press).

Reviews for For the Love of God: The Bible as an Open Book
"The perfect antidote to fundamentalist readings of the Bible, For the Love of God artfully conveys the multiple meanings that can be gleaned from biblical texts"
Judith Plaskow
author of Standing Again at Sinai: Judaism from a Feminist Perspective
"No one who reads this amazing, brilliantly written book will ever read the Bible the same way again." ... Read more

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