Smashing the Tablets

Radical Retellings of the Hebrew Bible

Sara Lippmann, Seth Rogoff (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

250 Seiten

2025
State University of New York Press (Verlag)
979-8-8558-0117-0 (ISBN)

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Provocative new readings of biblical texts by major contemporary Jewish writers.

Lot's daughters rebel against their predatory father, Jacob wrestles an angel in a queer underground nightclub, Job arrives in the form of an avaricious former sorority girl-Smashing the Tablets presents a collection of provocative new readings of biblical texts by major contemporary Jewish writers. Behind this groundbreaking collection is the idea that foundational texts must be read anew or they become tools of conservatism and reaction. To achieve fresh readings, it is often necessary to step outside traditional modes of analysis, whether academic or theological, and to violate the conventions of storytelling and interpretation. By challenging dominant readings and identifying underrepresented characters and moments that have been "written out" of the biblical conversation, the essays, stories, and poems in this collection rupture assumptions, unsettle the reader, and give voice to the voiceless. The Bible in this collection is bent, recontextualized, queered, inverted, and smashed to pieces. Smashing the Tablets is one of the most significant Jewish literary collections in decades, a groundbreaking must-read for Jews and others interested not only in the Bible but also in identity, faith, and power.

Sara Lippmann is the author of Lech, Jerks, and Doll Palace. Seth Rogoff is the author of the novel The Castle and chair of Journalism and Media Studies at Anglo-American University.

Acknowledgments

Foreword: You Suck and Other Stories
Shalom Auslander

Introduction
Seth Rogoff and Sara Lippmann

1. Lilith in God's Hands
Courtney Sender

2. Look at Her Xyxs, Her Brxght, Brxght Xyxs
Rosebud Ben-Oni

3. Cain and Abel
Seth Rogoff

4. Cain
Ariana Reines

5. Are You Still Alive
Michael Zapata

6. Ess and O
Anna Solomon

7. Lot's Daughters
Zeeva Bukai

8. Binding Variations
Daniel Torday

9. Bilhah and Zilpah Made Me Yearn for Torah
erica riddick

10. A Little East of Jordan
Moriel Rothman-Zecher

11. The Story of Dinah
Sarah Blake

12. Plagues
Madeline Cash

13. Mount Sinai and Me
Aaron Hamburger

14. Make It Mean Something
Elisa Albert

15. Upon the Hills with Jephthah's Daughter
Erika Dreifus

16. How David Leaves
Temim Fruchter

17. Once a Witch
Matthue Roth

18. Isaiah and Power
Aviya Kushner

19. The Job Book
Steve Almond

20. Root
Ilana Masad

21. Bauhaus City
Omer Friedlander

22. Haman
Max Gross

23. Scroll of Stars
Michael David Lukas

Contributors

Erscheinungsdatum	28.02.2025
Reihe/Serie	SUNY series in Contemporary Jewish Literature and Culture
Verlagsort	Albany, NY
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	363 g
Themenwelt	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Bibelausgaben / Bibelkommentare
	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Judentum
ISBN-13	979-8-8558-0117-0 / 9798855801170
Zustand	Neuware