Vixens Disturbing Vineyards : : Embarrassment and Embracement of Scriptures—A Festschrift Honoring Harry Fox (leBeit Yoreh) / / ed. by Tzemah Yoreh, Aubrey Glazer, Justin Jaron Lewis, Miryam Segal.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Academic Studies Press Backlist eBook-Package 2008-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Ancselovits, Elisha S.,; Basser, Herbert,; Clenman, Laliv,; Elkin, Edward,; Elman, Pearl,; Elman, Yaakov,; Fishbane, Simcha,; Fox, Harry,; Friedberg, Albert Dov,; Glazer, Aubrey L.,; Glazer, Aubrey,; Gottstein, Alon Goshen,; Haberman, Bonna Devora,; Hegedűs, Gyöngyi,; Heger, Paul,; Husband, Shana,; Kriger, Diane,; Kurshan, Ilana,; Lawee, Eric,; Lewis, Justin Jaron,; Meacham, Tirzah,; Mroczek, Eva,; Najman, Hindy,; Robinson, Ira,; Segal, Eliezer,; Segal, Miryam,; Verskin, Alan,; Yoreh, Tanhum,; Yoreh, Tzemah,
• HerausgeberIn: Glazer, Aubrey,; Lewis, Justin Jaron,; Segal, Miryam,; Yoreh, Tzemah,
• Place / Publishing House: Boston, MA : : Academic Studies Press, , [2010]; ©2010
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Language: English
• Series: Judaism and Jewish Life
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (690 p.)

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 th...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• CONTENTS
• ENGLISH CONTRIBUTIONS
• INTRODUCTION
• THE EMBARRASSMENT OF EMBARRASSMENT
• JUDAISM AND GENOCIDE: THE EMBARRASSMENT OF JEWISH JIHAD
• BIBLE
• A RE-EMBRACEMENT OF JUDGES 19: CHALLENGING PUBLIC-PRIVATE BOUNDARIES
• SHEKHEM AND THE SO-CALLED RAPE OF DINA
• AN EMBARRASSMENT OF RICHES, A PRIDE OF DEPLETION AND THE AMBIGUITY OF ADDRESS
• UNABASHEDLY READING DESIRED OUTCOMES INTO SCRIPTURE
• REWRITING AS WHITEWASHING: THE CASE OF REWRITTEN BIBLE
• ESTABLISHING A SACRED CHURCH IN THE NEW TESTAMENT
• TALMUD AND MIDRASH
• “IT WAS NOT ACCORDING TO THE WILL OF THE SAGES”: HALAKHIC AND AGGADIC RESPONSES TO PINHAS’ KILLING OF ZIMRI AND KOZBI IN NUMBERS 25
• EMBARRASSMENT AND RE-EMBRACEMENT OF A MIDRASH ON GENESIS 2:23
• DEUTERONOMY 21:10–14: THE BEAUTIFUL CAPTIVE WOMAN
• A PEG TO HANG ON: METAPHOR, ANCESTRAL MERIT AND THE MIDRASHIC RELATIONSHIP OF DAVID AND SOLOMON
• FROM GLUTTON TO GANGSTER
• DID THE TANNAIM INTERPRET THE SONG OF SONGS SYSTEMATICALLY? LIEBERMAN RECONSIDERED
• THE HALAKHAH FOLLOWS RAVA… EXCEPT WHEN IT DOESN’T: A MEDITATION ON HALAKHIC DECISION-MAKING
• RABBINIC MINDSETS WITHIN THE UNIVERSAL MYTHIC STRUCTURES OF SACRED HISTORY: A FEW INTERESTING CASES
• COUNT YOUR BLESSINGS: JEWISH MOURNING RITUALS DURING THE SPRING SEASON
• COMIC INTERLUDE
• MAKING FISH FOR SHABBAT (YOMA 75A)
• MEDIEVAL INTERPRETATION
• EMBARRASSMENT AS A MEANS OF EMBRACING AUTHORIAL INTENT
• THE DOUBLE PATH: THE TWO LAYERS OF THINKING AND THE TWOFOLD NATURE OF KNOWLEDGE IN THE WORKS OF SAADYA GAON
• 410 EMBARRASSMENT AS A CREATIVE FORCE IN MAIMONIDES’ META-HALAKHIC ENUMERATION OF THE 613 COMMANDMENTS
• TEACHING PHILOSOPHY TO THE MULTITUDE: AN INTRODUCTION TO THE EDUCATIONAL THEORY OF NISSIM BEN MOSHE OF MARSEILLES
• MODERN
• RABBI NATAN SLIFKIN ON SCIENCE AND TORAH: THE EVOLUTION OF A SEARCH FOR TRUTH
• MAPPING ALTERNATE TEXTS OF GENDER DIFFERENCE
• HOW CAN THEY BE BETTER THAN US? EMBARRASSMENT AND LEGISLATION
• “SUCH THINGS HAVE NEVER BEEN HEARD OF”: JEWISH INTELLECTUALS AND HASIDIC MIRACLES
• “CHOSENNESS”
• DURÉE, DEVEKUTH, & RE-EMBRACING THE GODLOVER: INVOLUTION OF UNIO MYSTICA VIA COLLOCATIVE HOMOSEXUELITY
• ENVIRONMENTAL EMBARRASSMENT: GENESIS 1:26-28 VS. GENESIS 2:15
• AFTERWORD
• VIXENS DISTURBING VINEYARDS: WHY FOX’S EMBRACEMENT OF SCRIPTURES CAN BE EMBARRASSING
• HEBREW CONTRIBUTIONS
• העתקה עברית של רִסאלת אלחאתִמי: השוואה בין אמרות המיוחסות לאריסטו לבין בתי שיר למֻתַנבִַּי
• אשת יפת תואר בספרי ובפרשנות הקדומה
• ׳׳…וקצתה את כפה לא תחוס עינך׳׳ (דברים כה, יב)
• בין חכמים לציבור: כיצד נוצרה ההלכה שבתורה שבעל פה