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...wild and woolly saga of one family more widely perceived as historical. Exhorting Abraham to leave his father's house and country, God offers him incalculable descendants and property. Abraham accepts, and the rest of Genesis describes his triumphs and travails and those of his son Isaac, grandson Jacob and great grandson Joseph; as they and their extended families are tested by hostile neighbors, famines, recurrent infertility and sometimes by the Deity himself. Divine intent and human ambition blur as each generation, often through painful winnowing, produces a champion to advance Israel's destiny. The book ends with Abraham...
...ensure the couple safe passage through Egypt and "so that all may go well with me." Sarah, barren, offers her slave, Hagar, to Abraham as a kind of surrogate mother but when Hagar gets pregnant, Sarah becomes jealous and beats her (16). Lot sleeps with his daughters (19). Jacob embezzles from his brother (27). His sons, enraged at the rape of their sister, kill every man in a neighboring town (34). Much of this is unpunished by God and, indeed, seems to fulfill his larger purposes...
There are moments that recapitulate the kind of personal identification that went on in Visotzky's group, as when the group discusses Jacob, the wildly ambitious, God-haunted wanderer who hoodwinks Esau and goes on to wrestle a mysterious adversary, emerging with a limp and a blessing. Artist Hugh O'Donnell recalls the bloody brawl he had with his farmer father before the older man laughed and said, "You're all right," and accepted his son's calling. And Moyers himself speaks up. "At 40," says the man who started his career in the public eye as Lyndon Johnson...
...novelist's) ability to see the patriarchal dramas through the eyes of each participant, seldom condemning and usually illuminating. Panelist Naomi Rosenblatt is a psychotherapist, and her Wrestling with Angels (Delta, with co-author Joshua Horwitz) features the subheadings "When Children Become Hostage to Their Parents' Marriage" (Jacob, Esau, Isaac, Rebekah) and "Setting Limits on Self-love" (Joseph...
Jointly sponsored by Harvard's Center for Jewish Studies, the Jacob and Libby Goodman Institute for the Study of Zionism at Brandeis University and the Zalman Shazar Center for Jewish History in Jerusalem, the Boston segment of the conference ends today. The centennial conference will reconvene in Jerusalem, from...