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A modernized, queer reading of the Torah In the Jewish tradition,
reading of the Torah follows a calendar cycle, with a specific
portion assigned each week. These weekly portions, read aloud in
synagogues around the world, have been subject to interpretation
and commentary for centuries. Following on this ancient tradition,
Torah Queeries brings together some of the world's leading rabbis,
scholars, and writers to interpret the Torah through a "bent lens".
With commentaries on the fifty-four weekly Torah portions and six
major Jewish holidays, the concise yet substantive writings
collected here open up stimulating new insights and highlight
previously neglected perspectives. This incredibly rich collection
unites the voices of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and
straight-allied writers, including some of the most central figures
in contemporary American Judaism. All bring to the table unique
methods of reading and interpreting that allow the Torah to speak
to modern concerns of sexuality, identity, gender, and LGBT life.
Torah Queeries offers cultural critique, social commentary, and a
vision of community transformation, all done through biblical
interpretation. Written to engage readers, draw them in, and, at
times, provoke them, Torah Queeries examines topics as divergent as
the Levitical sexual prohibitions, the experience of the Exodus,
the rape of Dinah, the life of Joseph, and the ritual practices of
the ancient Israelites. Most powerfully, the commentaries here
chart a future of inclusion and social justice deeply rooted in the
Jewish textual tradition. A labor of intellectual rigor, social
justice, and personal passions, Torah Queeries is an exciting and
important contribution to the project of democratizing Jewish
communities, and an essential guide to understanding the
intersection of queerness and Jewishness.
A feminist critique of Judaism as a patriarchal tradition and an exploration of the increasing involvement of women in naming and shaping Jewish tradition.
Leading theologians Carol P. Christ and Judith Plaskow propose a
new method for thinking about theological questions: embodied
theology rooted in experience and tested in dialogue. Their
theological conversation begins from the premise that the
transcendent, omnipotent male God of traditional theologies must be
replaced with new understandings of divinity that can provide
orientation and guidance as we face the social, political, and
environmental challenges of our time. Situating I divinity in the
world and placing responsibility for the future firmly in human
hands, they argue for an inclusive monotheism that affirms the
unity of being through a plurality of images celebrating diversity
and difference. Carol proposes that Goddess is the intelligent
embodied love that is in all being, a personal presence that can
inspire us to love the world more deeply. Judith counters that God
is an impersonal power of creativity, the ground of being that
includes both good and evil. Their probing of the autobiographical
sources of their theologies combined with an intense questioning of
each other's views offers both a new way of theological
conversation across difference.
A modernized, queer reading of the Torah In the Jewish tradition,
reading of the Torah follows a calendar cycle, with a specific
portion assigned each week. These weekly portions, read aloud in
synagogues around the world, have been subject to interpretation
and commentary for centuries. Following on this ancient tradition,
Torah Queeries brings together some of the world's leading rabbis,
scholars, and writers to interpret the Torah through a "bent lens".
With commentaries on the fifty-four weekly Torah portions and six
major Jewish holidays, the concise yet substantive writings
collected here open up stimulating new insights and highlight
previously neglected perspectives. This incredibly rich collection
unites the voices of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and
straight-allied writers, including some of the most central figures
in contemporary American Judaism. All bring to the table unique
methods of reading and interpreting that allow the Torah to speak
to modern concerns of sexuality, identity, gender, and LGBT life.
Torah Queeries offers cultural critique, social commentary, and a
vision of community transformation, all done through biblical
interpretation. Written to engage readers, draw them in, and, at
times, provoke them, Torah Queeries examines topics as divergent as
the Levitical sexual prohibitions, the experience of the Exodus,
the rape of Dinah, the life of Joseph, and the ritual practices of
the ancient Israelites. Most powerfully, the commentaries here
chart a future of inclusion and social justice deeply rooted in the
Jewish textual tradition. A labor of intellectual rigor, social
justice, and personal passions, Torah Queeries is an exciting and
important contribution to the project of democratizing Jewish
communities, and an essential guide to understanding the
intersection of queerness and Jewishness.
In this first collection of her essays and short writings, Judith
Plaskow, one of the founders of feminist theology and the founder
of Jewish feminist theology, documents her personal and scholarly
evolution. From her early days as a graduate student at Yale to her
present work on sexual ethics, the essays in this volume trace
Plaskow's work in feminist theology, Jewish feminist theology, and
sexuality. Covering all of her major essays, including "The Coming
of Lilith" and her pioneering work on anti-Judaism in Christian
feminism, this book also includes several previously unpublished
essays. Intelligently arranged and edited with the help of Donna
Berman, this collection is indispensable for religious studies
students, fans of Plaskow's work, and those pursuing a Jewish
education.
Examines and criticizes Niebuhr's and Tillich's doctrines of sin
and grace from the perspective of women's experience.
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