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.
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Table of contents
- Cover page
- Halftitle page
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- CONTENTS
- COPYRIGHT ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION
- CHAPTER 2 THE CREATION AND ITS AFTERMATH
- CHAPTER 3 THE APPLE AND EVE: A NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL INTERPRETATION
- CHAPTER 4 GOD’S SERPENT
- CHAPTER 5 “IT IS NOT GOOD FOR MAN TO BE ALONE”
- CHAPTER 6 BLOODLUST
- CHAPTER 7 ON THE TOWER OF BABEL
- CHAPTER 8 ΗESED : FEMINIST ETHICS IN JEWISH TRADITION
- CHAPTER 9 FAMINES, FEASTS, AND FRATERNITY: FOOD (AND DRINK) IN THE BOOK OF GENESIS
- CHAPTER 10 WHY GENESIS?
- CHAPTER 11 LOOKING BACK AT LOT’S WIFE
- CHAPTER 12 THE FACE OF THE OTHER: SARAH–HAGAR THEN AND NOW
- CHAPTER 13 THE BINDING OF ISAAC AND THE ARTS OF RESISTANCE
- CHAPTER 14 WAITING : A JEWISH PARADOX (GENESIS 18:1–22:24)
- CHAPTER 15 “THE MATTER IS FROM GOD”: RETOLDNARRATIVE AND THE MISTAKES OF CERTAINTY
- CHAPTER 16 JACOB: SOME NOTES ON CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT AND REPENTANCE
- CHAPTER 17 CONTRACTS OF GENESIS
- CHAPTER 18 JUDAH AND HIS BROTHERS: BECOMINGTHE LEADER OF HIS PRIDE
- CHAPTER 19 IMPERFECT FORGIVENESS: JOSEPH ANDHIS BROTHERS
- CHAPTER 20 “THAT WE MAY LIVE AND NOT DIE”: JUDAH AS LIFE FORCE OF GENESIS
- CHAPTER 21 ZAPHENATH, KUGELMASS, AND MILTON
- CHAPTER 22 “THEY DID NOT RECOGNIZE HIM”: FAILED FACIAL RECOGNITION IN THE FAMILY OF JACOB
- CHAPTER 23 THE DEATH OF JACOB: RESPONDING TO THE END OF LIFE
- CONTRIBUTORS
- INDEX OF BIBLICAL PASSAGES
- INDEX OF BIBLICAL CHARACTERS
- INDEX OF NAMES AND CONCEPTS
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