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Vixens Disturbing Vineyards : Embarrassment and Embracement of Scriptures : Festschrift in Honor of Harry Fox (leBeit Yoreh) / edited by Tzemah Yoreh [and others].

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English, Hebrew Series: Judaism and Jewish lifePublication details: Boston : Academic Studies Press, 2010.Description: 1 online resource (688 pages)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781618110442
  • 1618110446
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: No titleDDC classification:
  • 221.6 22
LOC classification:
  • BS1186 .V59 2010
Other classification:
  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
Contents -- introduction -- bible -- talmud and midrash -- comic interlude -- medieval interpretation -- modern
Summary: 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, the late Chana Safrai and Tirzah Meacham as well as many students, colleagues and friends of Professor Fox.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - EBSCO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (ebsco)490671

Includes bibliographical references.

Essays in English and Hebrew.

Print version record.

Contents -- introduction -- bible -- talmud and midrash -- comic interlude -- medieval interpretation -- modern

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, the late Chana Safrai and Tirzah Meacham as well as many students, colleagues and friends of Professor Fox.