The particulars of Rapture : reflections on exodus

The Particulars of Rapture is Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg's literary and theological exploration of the book of Exodus "The Particulars of Rapture, the sequel to Avivah Zornberg's 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.""--BOOK JACKET. "The Particulars of Rapture, the sequel to Avivah Zornberg's 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.""--Jacket The daughter of a rabbi shares her insights into the rabbinic texts and traditions, delving deeply into the story of Exodus for wisdom about how to live life in the present. Reprint. In Jewish tradition, the Exodus from Egypt marks the birth of the Israelite nation and religion.