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ReVisions Seeing Torah Through a Feminist Lens

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ISBN-10: 1580231179

ISBN-13: 9781580231176

Edition: 2001

Authors: Elyse Goldstein, Irving Greenberg

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List price: $16.95
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: LongHill Partners, Incorporated
Publication date: 4/1/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.62" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English

Rabbi Elyse Goldstein , one of the leading rabbis of a new generation, is director of Kolel: The Adult Center for Liberal Jewish Learning, a full-time progressive adult Jewish learning center. Goldstein lectures frequently throughout North America. She is also editor of The Women's Torah Commentary: New Insights from Women Rabbis on the 54 Weekly Torah Portions ; and The Women's Haftarah Commentary: New Insights from Women Rabbis on the 54 Weekly Haftarah Portions, the 5 Megillot and Special Shabbatot ; and author of the award-winning New Jewish Feminism: Probing the Past, Forging the Future and ReVisions: Seeing Torah through a Feminist Lens (all Jewish Lights).Rabbi Elyse Goldstein is…    

Acknowledgments
Foreword
Introduction
Women in the Torah
Introduction
Power and Powerlessness
Male and Female Were They Created: Eve, Lilith and the Snake
Leah and Rachel: A Study in Relationships
The Women of the Exodus Story: A Study in Community
The Daughters of Tzelophehad
Blood and Water: The Stuff of Life
Introduction
Blood and Its Symbolism in the Torah
Menstruation and the Laws of Niddah
A Jewish Feminist Reexamination of Menstruation
Blood and Men: A Feminist Look at Brit Milah
Women and Water in the Torah
A Feminist Reexamination of Mikveh
God, Goddess, Gender and the Torah
Introduction
Searching for the Female Spirit in the Torah
Female Imagery and Paganism
The Place of the Goddess and Shekhinah in Judaism
God-Language
Epilogue
Glossary
Notes
Bibliography and Suggested Further Reading
Index