Reading Ruth: Contemporary Women Reclaim a Sacred Story

Kates, Judith

ISBN 10: 0345380339 / ISBN 13: 9780345380333

Editore: Ballantine Books, 1994

Fairly worn, but readable and intact. If applicable: Dust jacket, disc or access code may not be included. Codice articolo GICWV.0345380339.A

Riassunto:

Featuring works by Cynthia Ozick, Marge Piercy, Francine Klagsbrun, and Nessa Rapoport, a collection of extraordinary essays by an eclectic group of modern women examines and illuminates the book of the Old Testament most relevant to women.

Dal risvolto di copertina interno: ok of Ruth is one of Western civilization's great narratives of women's relationships. This collection of modern-day interpretations brings together the wisdom, sensitivity, and spirituality of the biblical story with the struggles and insights of contemporary women. Readers will be moved and inspired by these essays."
--Susannah Heschel
Editor of On Being a Jewish Feminist
With Reading Ruth, two creative scholars have brought together an amazingly eclectic group of Jewish novelists, essayists, poets, rabbis, psychologists, and scholars--including Cynthia Ozick, Marge Piercy, Francine Klagsbrun, and Nessa Rapoport--to explore one of the most beloved stories in the Bible. In lively essays, poetry, fiction, and personal narrative, the gamut of women's experience in the modern world is illuminated by this ancient story. Whether the essayists explore relationships between sisters, the complex bond between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, the place of the "other" in soci

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Titolo: Reading Ruth: Contemporary Women Reclaim a ...
Casa editrice: Ballantine Books
Data di pubblicazione: 1994
Legatura: Rilegato
Condizione: acceptable