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Zusatztext …one cannot but be impressed by Beth Kissileff’s broad and multifaceted collection of essays on Genesis. It includes contributions by some of the best-known Jewish thinkers, scholars, writers, and public figures—the crafters of 21st-century American Jewish culture. The diversity of topics, from game theory to neurobiology, from culinary traditions to human sexuality, presents contemporary evidence that the Bible speaks to all human knowledge. Informationen zum Autor Beth Kissileff is the author of the forthcoming novel, Questioning Return . She is at work on a second novel and a scholarly study of Biblical misunderstandings between humans and God. She has received fellowships from the Corporation of Yaddo and the National Endowment for the Humanities and has taught at Carleton College, the University of Minnesota, Smith College and Mount Holyoke College. Klappentext Deuteronomy 32:47 says the Pentateuch should not be 'an empty matter.' This new anthology from Beth Kissileff fills Genesis with meaning, gathering intellectuals and thinkers who use their professional knowledge to illuminate the Biblical text. These writers use insights from psychology, law, political science, literature, and other scholarly fields, to create an original constellation of modern Biblical readings, and receptions of Genesis: A scientist of appetite on Eve's eating behavior; law professors on contracts in Genesis, and on collective punishment; an anthropologist on the nature of human strife in the Cain and Abel story; political scientists on the nature of Biblical games, Abraham's resistance, and collective action. The highly distinguished contributors include Alan Dershowitz and Ruth Westheimer, the novelists Rebecca Newberger Goldstein and Dara Horn, critics Ilan Stavans and Sander Gilman, historian Russell Jacoby, poets Alicia Suskin Ostriker and Jacqueline Osherow, and food writer Joan Nathan. Vorwort Renowned Jewish thinkers present varied readings of the first book of the Hebrew Bible. Zusammenfassung This anthology fills Genesis with meaning, gathering intellectuals and thinkers who use their professional knowledge to illuminate the Biblical text. The writers use insights from psychology, law, political science, literature, and other scholarly fields, to create an original constellation of modern Biblical readings, and receptions of Genesis. Inhaltsverzeichnis Table of Contents 1. Introduction - Beth Kissileff 2. The Creation and Its Aftermath (Genesis 1-3) - Steven J. Brams 3. The Apple and Eve: A Neuropsychological Interpretation (Genesis 2-3) - Harry R. Kissileff (PhD) 4. God's Serpent (Genesis 2-3) - J.H.H. Weiler 5. "It Is Not Good For Man To Be Alone" (Genesis 2-3) - Dr. Ruth Westheimer and Jonathan Mark 6. Bloodlust (Genesis 4) - Russell Jacoby 7. On The Tower of Babel (Genesis 11) - Ilan Stavans 8. Hesed: Feminist Ethics in Jewish Tradition (Genesis 12, 24) - Susan Schept 9. Famines, Feasts and Fraternity: Food (and Drink) in the Book of Genesis (Genesis 18) - Joan Nathan 10. Why Genesis (Genesis 18) - Alan Dershowitz 11. Looking Back at Lot's Wife (Genesis 19) - Rebecca Newberger Goldstein 12. The Face of the Other: Sarah - Hagar Then and Now (Genesis 16, 21) - Alicia Suskin Ostriker 13. The Binding of Isaac and the Arts of Residence (Genesis 22) - Ronald R. Krebs 14. Writing: A Jewish Paradox - Sander L. Gilman 15. "The Matter is from God": Retold Narrative and the Mistakes of Certainty (Genesis 24) - Beth Kissileff 16. Jacob: Some Notes on Character Development and Repentance - Dara Horn 17. Contracts of Genesis (Genesis 27) - Geoffrey P. Miller 18. Judah and His Brothers: Becoming the Leader of His Pride (Genesis 37-50) - Renan Levine 19. Imperfect Forgiveness: Joseph...
