Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- 1 Introduction: Wrestling with the Book of Genesis -- The Stories of Genesis: Literary and Biblical Criticism -- Generating New Stories: Midrash and...
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Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- 1 Introduction: Wrestling with the Book of Genesis -- The Stories of Genesis: Literary and Biblical Criticism -- Generating New Stories: Midrash and Intertextuality -- 2 Adam, Eve and the Serpent: Mark Twain -- Twain against God: Refiguring the Fall -- The Diaries of Adam and Eve and Letters from the Earth -- 3 Cain and Abel: John Steinbeck -- The Growth of a Novel: Ginzberg, Campbell and Fromm -- East of Eden: The Choice between Good and Evil -- 4 From the Flood to Babel: Jeanette Winterson -- Bloom, Frye and Biblical Revision: Boating for Beginners and Lighthousekeeping -- 5 The Sacrifice of Isaac: Jenny Diski -- Diskiâs Journeys: Rediscovering Jewish Roots -- Midrashic Intertexts: Ginzberg, Spiegel, Zornberg, Alter -- âThe Residue of the Akedahâ: Only Human and After These Things -- 6 Rachel and Her Sisters: Anita Diamant -- The Red Tent: A Publishing Phenomenon and its Liberal Jewish Context -- Kushner, Midrash and Feminism: In the Wake of the Goddesses -- The Red Tent: Recovering a Sacred Space for Women -- 7 Joseph and His Brothers: Thomas Mann -- Mannâs Spiritual Journey: From the Bourgeois to the Fully Human -- Philosophical Intertexts: Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Freud -- Midrashic Sources: bin Gorionâs âJoseph-Novelâ and Die Sagen Der Juden -- Mannâs Part in the Tradition: Exploring âthe Depths Beneathâ -- Conclusion -- Select Bibliography
