Vixens Disturbing Vineyards: The Embarrassment and Embracement of Scripture: A Festschrift Honoring Harry Fox LeBeit Yoreh

Yoreh,t

ISBN 10: 1934843415 / ISBN 13: 9781934843413

Published by Academic Studies Press, 2010

About this Item

Addresses the concept of Jewish peoplehood since the initial attempts of early 20th century Jewish intellectuals Mordechai Kaplan and Salo Baron. This work offers both intellectual and practical frameworks for grappling with the policy outcomes of different understandings of the peoplehood concept. Editor(s): Yoreh, Tzemah; Glazer, Aubrey; Lewis, Justin Jaron. Series: Judaism and Jewish Life. Num Pages: 720 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HRJT; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 244 x 169 x 43. Weight in Grams: 1146. . 2010. Hardcover. . . . .

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Vixens Disturbing Vineyards: The Embarrassment and Embracement of Scripture: A Festschrift Honoring Harry Fox LeBeit Yoreh
• Publisher: Academic Studies Press
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1934843415
• ISBN 13: 9781934843413
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Embarrassment and embracement are two moments in the reading, misreading and re-reading of scriptures, defined broadly to include both canonical and non-canonical texts. Despite what Harold Bloom calls our "belatedness" in this process, every reading community has its way of confronting that moment of embarrassment so as to re-embrace or reject its implications. These implications are especially strong in religious cultures with a nomian tradition. By entering into that very tension between what Fox calls embarrassment and re-embracement, every reader recognizes the anxiety of a narrative's influence upon a community. Papers dealing with different aspects of this phenomenon are part of a festschrift honoring Professor Harry Fox (LeBeit Yoreh) the originator of this seminal idea in the transmission of texts. Contributors include such scholars as Yaakov Elman, Simcha Fishbane, Tirzah Meacham, and the late Chana Safrai, as well as many students, colleagues and friends of Professor Fox.

About the Author

Aubrey L. Glazer, Ph.D. (University of Toronto) is an independent scholar who currently serves as rabbi at the Jewish Community Center of Harrison, New York.

Miryam Segal is Assistant Professor in the Department of Classical, Middle Eastern and Asian Languages and Cultures at Queens College, CUNY. 

Tzemah Yoreh (PhD, Hebrew University) was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Albright Institute Jerusalem (2006) and Ben-Gurion University (2006-2008). He is currently Assistant Professor of Bible at the American Jewish University.