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The Particulars of Rapture

Gottlieb Zornberg, Avivah

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The Particulars of Rapture

Avivah Zornberg grew up in a world of rabbinic tradition and scholarship and received a Ph.D. in English literature from Cambridge University. The Particulars of Rapture, the sequel to her award-winning study of the Book of Genesis, takes its title from a line by the American poet Wallace Stevens about the interdependence of opposite things, such as male and female, and conscious and unconscious. To her reading of the familiar story of the Israelites and their flight from slavery in Egypt, Avivah Zornberg has brought a vast range of classical Jewish interpretations and Midrashic sources, literary allusions, and ideas from philosophy and psychology. Her quest in this book, as she writes in the introduction, is "to find those who will hear with me a particular idiom of redemption," who will hear "within the particulars of rapture...what cannot be expressed."

Zornberg's previous book, The Beginning of Desire: Reflections on Genesis, won the National Jewish Book Award for nonfiction in 1995 and has become a classic among readers of all religions. The Particulars of Rapture will enhance Zornberg's reputation as one of today's most original and compelling interpreters of the biblical and rabbinic traditions.

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Title of ebook: The Particulars of Rapture
ISBN: 9780385508254
Publisher: Doubleday
Internet download file size: 1867 kb
Released online for download: 11-19-2002
Author of eBook: Gottlieb Zornberg, Avivah

The Particulars of Rapture

Reflections on Exodus
Shemoth

The Mirror of Redemption

Exodus 1:1-6:1]

1. Fit for Redemption? The Human Context

Israel and Egypt: The Mosaic Distinction

In Jewish tradition, the Exodus from Egypt marks the birth of the Israelite nation and religion. Conceptually, it marks a basic separation between cultures: a distinction between true and false in religion that Jan Assmann, in Moses the Egyptian, calls the Mosaic distinction: "The space severed or cloven by this distinction is the space of Western monotheism."1

How was this distinction conceived? What are the symbolic values attached to each of the two figures, Israel and Egypt? Underlying the issues of truth and falsehood, the Mosaic distinction, in its more profound ethical dimensions, attributes psychological and spiritual values to each figure. The stakes of redemption, of birth to a full selfhood, are large: the issue is not narrowly theological but rather is related to all that makes individual and collective life fruitful or sterile.

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