I am posting 4 very different, yet equally interesting books or discussion topics for our 2011 series. Here is the second:
2. ReVisions, Seeing Torah Through a Feminist Lens by Rabbi Elyse Goldstein.
Here are some of the topics:
Women in the Torah:
Power and Powerlessness
Male and Female Were They Created: Eve, Lilith and the Snake
Leah and Rachel: A Study in Relationship
Blood and Water: the Stuff of Life
Blood and Its Symbolism in the Torah
Laws pertaining to Menstruation
A Jewish Feminist Reexamination of Menstruation
Laws of Circumcision
Women and Water in the Torah
God, Goddess, Gender and The Torah
Searching for the Female Spirit in the Torah
Female Imagery and Paganism
The Place of the Goddess and Shekhinah in Judaism
God Language
You will need to purchase this paperback book for the class.
from the blurb: "I use the title ReVisions for this book because I want readers both to revise -- in the classic definition of reexamine and alter - and to see the text anew, to have a new vision, a "revision" of Torah...It begins with the notion that women see the text differently than men do, ask different questions and bring different answers...This book is not about rewriting the Torah. It is about rereading it."
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