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The particulars of rapture
reflections on Exodus
By Zornberg, Avivah Gottlieb
- ISBN
- 978-0-38549-152-5
- Publisher
- New York ; Doubleday, c2001.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on January 1, 2001
In his poem "Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction," Wallace Stevens wrote of "the particulars of rapture" that come when "two things of opposite natures...depend on one another." In these essays, Zornberg (Jewish studies, Univ. of London; The Beginnings of Desire: Reflections on Genesis) reflects on the "multiple alternative narratives" that coexist both in the Book of Exodus as well as in its many an...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
