Holy Envy: Writing in the Jewish Christian Borderzone by Maeera Shreiber (Englis

Description: Holy Envy by Maeera Shreiber What is between us and the Christians is a deep dark affair which will go for another hundred generations . . ." (Amos Oz, Judas)Among the great social shifts of the post-World War II era is the unlikely sea-change in Jewish Christian relations. We read each others scriptures and openly discuss differences as well as similarities. Yet many such encounters have become rote and predictable. Powerful emotions stirred up by these conversations are often dismissed or ignored. Demonstrating how such emotions as shame, envy, and desire can inform these encounters, Holy Envy: Writing in the Jewish Christian Borderzone charts a new way of thinking about interreligious relations. Moreover, by focusing on modern and contemporary writers (novelists and poets) who traffic in the volatile space between Judaism and Christianity, the book calls attention to the creative implications of these intense encounters.While recognizing a long-overdue need to address a fundamentally Christian narrative underwriting twentieth century American verse, Holy Envy does more than represent Christianity as an aesthetically coercive force, or as an adversarial other. For the book also suggests how literature can excavate an alternative interreligious space, at once risky and generative. In bringing together recent accounts of Jewish Christian relations, affect theory, and poetics, Holy Envy offers new ways into difficult and urgent, conversations about interreligious encounters.Holy Envy is sure to engage readers who are interested in literature, religion, and, above all, interfaith dialogue. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Author Biography Maeera Y. Shreiber is Associate Professor of English, and former Director of Religious Studies, at the University of Utah, where she teaches and writes about poetry, Jewish American literature, ethnic American studies, religious studies, and interfaith relations. Professor Shreiber is the author of, among other books, Singing in a Strange Land: A Jewish American Poetics. Table of Contents Preface | viiAcknowledgments | xix1 Holy Envy: Writing in the Jewish Christian Borderzone | 12 Lives of the Saints: Mina Loy and Gertrude Stein | 273 Hiding in Plain Sight: Louis Zukofsky, Shame, and the Sorrows of Yiddish | 544 Unholy Envy: Karl Shapiro and the Problem of "Judeo-Christianity" | 805 The Certainty of Wings: Denise Levertov and the Legacy of Her Hebrew-Christian Father | 1086 Coda: Holy Insecurity | 133Notes | 143Works Cited | 151Index | 163 Review Anyone who has stepped up to a border holding questionable legal papers knows the feelings these sites can summon: anxiety, desire, hope, and defiance, among others. Maeera Shreiber bravely pitches her camp at one of the most contested and troublesome of such border zones, the one where Judaism and Christianity meet, and invites readers in to explore the intensities and paradoxes she finds swirling there. With dazzling readings of the work of Mina Loy, Karl Shapiro, Denise Levertov, Leonard Cohen, and others, Holy Envy demonstrates how modernist and postmodernist poets draw inspiration from doubt and belief, alienation and belonging.---Josh Lambert, Sophia Moses Robison Associate Professor of Jewish Studies and English, Wellesley CollegeHaving spent much of the last two decades writing non-fiction books and articles about what Shreiber calls the Jewish Christian Borderzone, I feel a strong kinship with this beautiful and significant work. This book, the first of its kind, complements my work on biblical texts by exploring the same topic through magnificently explicated modern novels and poems. In Holy Envy, Shreiber moves from Krister Stendahls concept of holy envy to her own innovative notion of holy insecurity, giving us powerful language for inter-religious dialogue, and a wonderful set of tools for anyone trying to appreciate the religion of the other.---Marc Zvi Brettler, Morton and Bernice Lerner Distinguished Professor of Jewish Studies, Duke University, and co-author, with Amy-Jill Levine, of The Bible With and Without Jesus: How Jews and Christians Read the Same Stories Differently. Review Quote Having spent much of the last two decades writing non-fiction books and articles about what Shreiber calls the Jewish Christian Borderzone, I feel a strong kinship with this beautiful and significant work. This book, the first of its kind, complements my work on biblical texts by exploring the same topic through magnificently explicated modern novels and poems. In Holy Envy , Shreiber moves from Krister Stendahls concept of holy envy to her own innovative notion of holy insecurity, giving us powerful language for inter-religious dialogue, and a wonderful set of tools for anyone trying to appreciate the religion of the other. ---Marc Zvi Brettler, Morton and Bernice Lerner Distinguished Professor of Jewish Studies, Duke University, and co-author, with Amy-Jill Levine, of The Bible With and Without Jesus: How Jews and Christians Read the Same Stories Differently., Feature An important new approach to interfaith dialogue. Description for Sales People An important new approach to interfaith dialogue. Details ISBN1531501737 Author Maeera Shreiber Short Title Holy Envy Pages 208 Publisher Fordham University Press Language English Year 2022 ISBN-10 1531501737 ISBN-13 9781531501730 Format Paperback Subtitle Writing in the Jewish Christian Borderzone Imprint Fordham University Press Country of Publication United States Place of Publication New York Illustrations 1 b/w illustration Publication Date 2022-11-15 AU Release Date 2022-11-15 NZ Release Date 2022-11-15 US Release Date 2022-11-15 UK Release Date 2022-11-15 DEWEY 809.933529924 Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:161873591;

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