A book that enhances our appreciation of the Bible--"explaining, exploring, and deepening our sense of what it means to be a human being of faith in a world as fractured and fragmentary as ours" ( Forward). Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg informs her literary analysis of the biblical text with concepts drawn from Freud, Winnicott, Laplanche, and other psychoanalytic thinkers to make a powerful argument for the idea that the creators of the midrashic commentary, the medieval rabbinic commentators, and the Hassidic commentators ...
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A book that enhances our appreciation of the Bible--"explaining, exploring, and deepening our sense of what it means to be a human being of faith in a world as fractured and fragmentary as ours" ( Forward). Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg informs her literary analysis of the biblical text with concepts drawn from Freud, Winnicott, Laplanche, and other psychoanalytic thinkers to make a powerful argument for the idea that the creators of the midrashic commentary, the medieval rabbinic commentators, and the Hassidic commentators were themselves on some level aware of the complex interplay between conscious and unconscious levels of experience and used this knowledge in their interpretations. In her analysis of the stories of Adam and Eve, Noah, Jonah, Abraham, Rebecca, Isaac, Joseph and his brothers, Ruth, and Esther, Zornberg reveals the interaction between consciousness and unconsciousness.
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We read this in a book group brought together a few years ago to read her first two books.
We all concur, however, that she needs an editor. Her sentence structure is unnecessarily convoluted for someone for whom English is her native tongue.
TropeLady
Oct 14, 2010
Dense, chewy, disjointed
While admittedly more accessible than Ms. Zornberg's earlier books on Genesis and Exodus, The Murmuring Deep is still quite dense. Her writing is disjointed, and her logic is frequently difficult to follow. In particular, she is prone to using extreme adjectives, i.e., situations tend to be 'fraught' or people are in an 'abyss'. It helps to have a psychology background, as much of her analysis relates to this field.
On the plus side, Ms. Zornberg is quite knowledgeable, and does bring lesser known midrashim and psychoanalytic thought to analysis of the relationships within the Bible, and offers much to chew on. The concept of God as author of Torah writing into it the character of God is quite thought provoking.
