1st Edition

Life in Citations Biblical Narratives and Contemporary Hebrew Culture

By Ruth Tsoffar Copyright 2020
248 Pages 16 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

248 Pages 16 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

248 Pages 16 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

In her latest book, Life in Citiations: Biblical Narratives and Contemporary Hebrew Culture, Ruth Tsoffar studies several key biblical narratives that figure prominently in Israeli culture. Life in Citations provides a close reading of these narratives, along with works by contemporary Hebrew Israeli artists that respond to them. Together they read as a modern commentary on life with text,... Read more
Introduction: Biblical Habitus.  

1. Costly Epiphany of Milk and Honey. 

2. Gifts of Wounds: Isaac, Ishmael, and the Legacies of Abuse. 

3. Ruth’s Homecoming: Meta-Bread, Transformation, and Offspring. 

In Lieu of an Epilogue: Ruptured and Departure: Palestinian Breadscape.

Biography

Ruth Tsoffar is an Associate Professor of Women’s Studies, Comparative Literature, and Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan.

"Interpreting Israeli-Jewish national themes from postcolonial, ethnic and feminist perspectives, the book offers a dialectical "negation of the negation" of hierarchical Zionist tropes, rather than a simple negative negation." - Uri Ram, Professor of Sociology, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel.