VIXENS DISTURBING VINEYARDS: WHY FOX’S EMBRACEMENT OF SCRIPTURES CAN BE EMBARRASSING

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. ENGLISH CONTRIBUTIONS
4. INTRODUCTION
5. THE EMBARRASSMENT OF EMBARRASSMENT 5
6. JUDAISM AND GENOCIDE: THE EMBARRASSMENT OF JEWISH JIHAD 19
7. BIBLE
8. A RE-EMBRACEMENT OF JUDGES 19: CHALLENGING PUBLIC-PRIVATE BOUNDARIES 55
9. SHEKHEM AND THE SO-CALLED RAPE OF DINA 67
10. AN EMBARRASSMENT OF RICHES, A PRIDE OF DEPLETION AND THE AMBIGUITY OF ADDRESS 79
11. UNABASHEDLY READING DESIRED OUTCOMES INTO SCRIPTURE 96
12. REWRITING AS WHITEWASHING: THE CASE OF REWRITTEN BIBLE 140
13. ESTABLISHING A SACRED CHURCH IN THE NEW TESTAMENT 154
14. TALMUD AND MIDRASH
15. “IT WAS NOT ACCORDING TO THE WILL OF THE SAGES”: HALAKHIC AND AGGADIC RESPONSES TO PINHAS’ KILLING OF ZIMRI AND KOZBI IN NUMBERS 25 169
16. EMBARRASSMENT AND RE-EMBRACEMENT OF A MIDRASH ON GENESIS 2:23 192
17. DEUTERONOMY 21:10–14: THE BEAUTIFUL CAPTIVE WOMAN 208
18. A PEG TO HANG ON: METAPHOR, ANCESTRAL MERIT AND THE MIDRASHIC RELATIONSHIP OF DAVID AND SOLOMON 219
19. FROM GLUTTON TO GANGSTER 241
20. DID THE TANNAIM INTERPRET THE SONG OF SONGS SYSTEMATICALLY? LIEBERMAN RECONSIDERED 260
21. THE HALAKHAH FOLLOWS RAVA… EXCEPT WHEN IT DOESN’T: A MEDITATION ON HALAKHIC DECISION-MAKING 272
22. RABBINIC MINDSETS WITHIN THE UNIVERSAL MYTHIC STRUCTURES OF SACRED HISTORY: A FEW INTERESTING CASES 308
23. COUNT YOUR BLESSINGS: JEWISH MOURNING RITUALS DURING THE SPRING SEASON 315
24. COMIC INTERLUDE
25. MAKING FISH FOR SHABBAT (YOMA 75A) 347
26. MEDIEVAL INTERPRETATION
27. EMBARRASSMENT AS A MEANS OF EMBRACING AUTHORIAL INTENT 351
28. THE DOUBLE PATH: THE TWO LAYERS OF THINKING AND THE TWOFOLD NATURE OF KNOWLEDGE IN THE WORKS OF SAADYA GAON 385
29. 410 EMBARRASSMENT AS A CREATIVE FORCE IN MAIMONIDES’ META-HALAKHIC ENUMERATION OF THE 613 COMMANDMENTS 410
30. TEACHING PHILOSOPHY TO THE MULTITUDE: AN INTRODUCTION TO THE EDUCATIONAL THEORY OF NISSIM BEN MOSHE OF MARSEILLES 415
31. MODERN
32. RABBI NATAN SLIFKIN ON SCIENCE AND TORAH: THE EVOLUTION OF A SEARCH FOR TRUTH 433
33. MAPPING ALTERNATE TEXTS OF GENDER DIFFERENCE 447
34. HOW CAN THEY BE BETTER THAN US? EMBARRASSMENT AND LEGISLATION 460
35. “SUCH THINGS HAVE NEVER BEEN HEARD OF”: JEWISH INTELLECTUALS AND HASIDIC MIRACLES 480
36. “CHOSENNESS” 496
37. DURÉE, DEVEKUTH, & RE-EMBRACING THE GODLOVER: INVOLUTION OF UNIO MYSTICA VIA COLLOCATIVE HOMOSEXUELITY 505
38. ENVIRONMENTAL EMBARRASSMENT: GENESIS 1:26-28 VS. GENESIS 2:15 554
39. AFTERWORD
40. VIXENS DISTURBING VINEYARDS: WHY FOX’S EMBRACEMENT OF SCRIPTURES CAN BE EMBARRASSING 587
41. HEBREW CONTRIBUTIONS
42. העתקה עברית של רִסאלת אלחאתִמי: השוואה בין אמרות המיוחסות לאריסטו לבין בתי שיר למֻתַנבִַּי 594
43. אשת יפת תואר בספרי ובפרשנות הקדומה 626
44. ׳׳…וקצתה את כפה לא תחוס עינך׳׳ (דברים כה, יב) 635
45. בין חכמים לציבור: כיצד נוצרה ההלכה שבתורה שבעל פה 643