Life in Citations - Biblical Narratives and Contemporary Hebrew Culture

In her latest book, Life in Citiations: Biblical Narratives and Contemporary Hebrew Culture, Ruth Tsoffar studies several key biblical narratives that figure prominently in Israeli culture. Life in Citations provides a close reading of these narratives, along with works by contemporary Hebrew Israeli artists that respond to them. Together they read as a modern commentary on life with text, or even life under the rule of its verses, to answer questions like How can we explain the fascination and intense identification of Israelis with the Bible? What does it mean to live in such close proximity with the Bible, and What kind of story can such a life tell?

List of contents

Introduction: Biblical Habitus. 1. Costly Epiphany of Milk and Honey. 2. Gifts of Wounds: Isaac, Ishmael, and the Legacies of Abuse. 3. Ruth’s Homecoming: Meta-Bread, Transformation, and Offspring. In Lieu of an Epilogue: Ruptured and Departure: Palestinian Breadscape. Index.

About the author

Ruth Tsoffar is an Associate Professor of Women's Studies, Comparative Literature, and Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan.

Summary

In her latest book Ruth Tsoffar studies several key biblical narratives that figure prominently in Israeli culture. This book provides a close reading of these narratives, along with works by contemporary Hebrew Israeli artists that respond to them.

Additional text

Interpreting Israeli-Jewish national themes from postcolonial, ethnic and feminist perspectives, the book offers a dialectical "negation of the negation" of hierarchical Zionist tropes, rather than a simple negative negation. --Uri Ram, Professor of Sociology, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel.

Product details

• Authors: Ruth Tsoffar, Tsoffar Ruth
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2021
• EAN: 9781032089126
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3208912-6
• No. of pages: 248
• Series: Routledge Studies in Comparative Literature
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Jewish, LITERARY CRITICISM / Books & Reading, LITERARY CRITICISM / Comparative Literature, LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / Religion, Judaism, Literary studies: post-colonial literature, Literature: history and criticism, Literary studies: postcolonial literature