Imagining the Jewish God (Graven Images)

Imagining the Jewish God (Graven Images)

by Jerome Rothenberg, Charles Bernstein, Alicia Ostriker, Zachary Braiterman, Jay Michaelson, Marcia Falk, Laynie Browne, Michael Heller, Ken Koltun-Fromm, Jonathan Boyarin, David Novak, Howard Schwartz, Jack Hirschman, Norman Finkelstein, Noam Reisner, Michael Marmur, Benjamin Sommer, Bill Sherman, Leonard Kaplan, Rabbi Rebecca Alpert, Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Michael Castro, James Chapson, Alison Creighton, Lewis Freedman, Jeff Friedman, Lenn Goodman, Susan Handelman, Leonard V. Kaplan, Martin Kavka, Shaul Magid, Randi Rashkover, Jonathan Wyn Schofer, Kenneth Seeskin, Gerald Stern

574 pages· 2016· ISBN 9781498517492
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Jewish art has always been with us, but so has a broader canvas of Jewish imaginings: in thought, in emotion, in text, and in ritual practice. Imagining the Jewish God was there in the beginning, as it were, engraved and embedded in the ways Jews lived and responded to their God.This book attempts to give voice to these diverse imaginings of the Jewish God, and offers these collected essays and poems as a living text meant to provoke a substantive and nourishing dialogue. A responsive, living covenant lies at the heart of this book—a covenantal reciprocity that actively engages the dynamics of Jewish thinking and acting in dialogue with God. The contributors to this volume are committed to this form of textual reasoning, even as they all move us beyond the “text” as foundational for the imagined “people of the book.” That people, we submit, lives and breathes in and beyond the texts of poetry, narrative, sacred literature, film, and graphic mediums. We imagine the Jewish people, and the covenant they respond to, as provocative intimations of the divine. The essays in this volume seek to draw these vocal intimations out so that we can all hear their resonant call.

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