Books about Nakedness from Amazon.com

"Transgressive, devout, poetic, bawdy, Ostriker's book executes a Jewish feminist's contradance with tradition and makes of it an ecstatic celebration". -- Marilyn Hacker, poet and former editor of Kenyon Review "The Nakedness of the Fathers belongs on the book-shelf of Jewish feminists beside Plaskow's Standing Again at Sinai". -- Outlook "Ostriker's most sustained effort to interrogate the Hebrew Bible from a feminist perspective". -- Tikkun "Alicia Ostriker combines her talents as poet, essayist, and literary critic in this witty and profound meditation on key narratives of the Hebrew Bible.... It is vital reading for anyone concerned with contemporary women's reimagining of the sacred". -- Cross Currents "All of us who are women poets, idol breakers, and revisionists ... feel a deep kinship to the work of Alicia Ostriker, and a debt as well". -- Eleanor Wilner, a recipient of a MacArthur fellowship and author of Sarah's Gift "An imaginative and spiritual dialogue with characters and narratives of the Old Testament". -- Publishers Weekly.
Price: $6.56 [Notify me when price goes down.]

In order to assess the purpose and function of the incest narratives in the Pentateuch and the incest prohibitions of Leviticus 18, McClenney-Sadler's book offers a formal examination of ancient Israelite kinship terminology. According to anthropologists, only through a formal analysis of kin terms can incest prohibitions be properly understood. A "formal" analysis of kinship terms is a method employed by ethnographers to compare the kinship system of any given society with one of the six conventionally recognized kinship systems worldwide. There are very specific culturally patterned and expected behaviors that every society adopts in relation to post-marital residence, rules of descent, kinship terminology and incest prohibitions. These patterns are socially conditioned and eventually produce either of the six kinship systems. A close reading of the biblical textual evidence in light of Syro-Palestinian archaeology allows ut to conclude that the kinship system of ancient Israel was Normal Hawaiian. Furthermore, the internal logic and structure of Leviticus 18 becomes clear once we recognize that descent is not biological but jural in nature. Reading Leviticus 18 with this idea in view, we find that a Normal Hawaiian kinship system is reflected in both the Genesis incest narratives and the jual-legal form of Leviticus 18. A hierarchy of kinship becomes transparent in the form and structure of Leviticus 18. In particular, we see in this form that wives and mothers were treated as heads of family in biblical law and endowed with spousal and parental rights and authority over every other family member, not only in incest laws, but in all matters. The jural authority of mothers and wives is structurally represented as second only to that of Yahweh..
Price: $98.23 [Notify me when price goes down.]

Joanne Sheehy Hoover discovers the richness that awaits when without fear we open our hearts fully to the journey Her poetry encourages each of us "to discover a path toward a different terrain." "Not in Utter Nakedness" explores the meaning in ordinary events that are both common and universal. This is an evocative look at one life lived passionately and honestly..
Price: $15.00 [Notify me when price goes down.]