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Reading Ruth : contemporary women reclaim a sacred story
Title
Reading Ruth : contemporary women reclaim a sacred story / edited by Judith A. Kates and Gail Twersky Reimer.
ISBN
0345380320
9780345380326
Edition
First trade paperback edition.
Publication
New York : Ballantine Books, 1996.
Physical Description
xxv, 386 pages ; 21 cm
Summary
A collection of thirty short essays by women on the book of Ruth. the book opens with the text of Ruth itself and follows with a range of essas grouped around topics in Ruth. these essays very widely in method and quality, some being academic, oth.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
December 16, 2019
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 369-379).
Contents
Ruth, Naomi, and Orpah : a parable of friendship / Gloria Goldreich
Friendship / Ruth Anna Putnam
Feminine plurals / Roberta Apfel and Lise Grondahl
The concealed alternative / Avivah Zornberg
The redeeming of Ruth / Alicia Ostriker
Finding our past : a lesbian interpretation of the Book of Ruth / Rebecca Alpert
Her mother's house / Gail Twersky Reimer
Language as female empowerment in Ruth / Nehama Aschkenasy
The journey toward life / Patricia Karlin-Neumann
Fullness and emptiness, fertility and loss : meditations on Naomi's tale in the Book of Ruth / Lois C. Dubin
Growing up and older with Ruth / Sylvia Rothchild
The Book of Ruth and Naomi / Marge Piercy
Ruth's journey / Ruth Whitman
At the crossroads / Merle Feld
Women at the center : Ruth and Shavuot / Judith A. Kates
Circles of kinship : Samuel 's family romance / Susanne Klingenstein
Ruth / Cynthia Ozick
Words not said : four poems after the Book of Ruth / Kathryn Hellerstein
Awakening Ruth / Barbara Helfgott Hyett
Isa / Nessa Rapoport
Ruth and the continuity of Israel / Adele Berlin
Ruth and Naomi, Rachel and Leah : sisters under the skin / Francine Klagsbrun
Soldiers in an army of mothers : reflections on Naomi and the heroic biblical woman / Sylvia Barack Fishman
Reading Ruth : where are the women? / Vanessa L. Ochs
Ruth : dilemmas of loyalty and connection / Mona DeKoven Fishbane
Reading Ruth with Naomi / Marianne Hirsch
Ruth and the Messiah / Tamar Frankiel
Ruth reconsidered / Susan Reimer Torn
Dialogue on devotion / Norma Rosen.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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