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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]. - Boston : Academic Studies Press, 2010. - 1 online resource (688 pages) - Judaism and Jewish life . - Judaism and Jewish life. .

Includes bibliographical references.

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.


Essays in English and Hebrew.

ISBN: 9781618110442 1618110446

Subjects--Uniform Titles:
Bible.--Old Testament--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Jewish.
Bible.--Old Testament--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Bible--A.T.--Critique, interprétation, etc. juives.
Bible--A.T.--Critique, interprétation, etc.
Bible.--Ancien Testament--Critique, interprétation, etc. juives.
Bible.--Old Testament

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Judaism--Relations.
Rabbinical literature--History and criticism.
Gentiles in the Old Testament.
Gentiles in rabbinical literature.
Jewish ethics.
Embarrassment.
Judaïsme--Relations.
Littérature rabbinique--Histoire et critique.
Gentils dans l'Ancien Testament.
Gentils dans la littérature rabbinique.
Embarras (Gêne)
Morale juive.
RELIGION--Biblical Criticism & Interpretation--Old Testament.
Embarrassment
Gentiles in rabbinical literature
Gentiles in the Old Testament
Interfaith relations
Jewish ethics
Judaism
Rabbinical literature

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Festschriften
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Festschriften.

LC Class. No.: BS1186 / .V59 2010

Dewey Class. No.: 221.6