Genesis: The Beginning of Desire
By$25.00 ·
Paperback, 6" x 9", 480 pages
ISBN: 9780827609150
A National Jewish Book Award Winner (Original Hardcover edition) -- now in a new JPS paperback edition
An intellectually stimulating and personally uplifting exploration of Genesis
Dr. Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg was recently awarded the Maurice N. Eisendrath Bearer of Light Award -- the highest honor bestowed by the Reform Movement. Read more and view the video of the presentation ceremony.
“…an extraordinary book. Not quite scholarship as such, nor exegesis, nor literary criticism or theology, it partakes of them all, filtering familiar texts through a richly intelligent and transforming sensibility.” —The Jerusalem Report
“… sinewy, powerful and hauntingly beautiful.” —Publishers’ Weekly
Genesis: the Beginning of Desire breathes new life into the stories of Adam and Eve, Noah, Abraham and Sarah, Isaac, Jacob and Esau, Rachel, and Joseph. Zornberg brings biblical, midrashic, and literary sources together, weaving them into a seamless tapestry and illuminating the tensions that grip human beings as they search for and encounter God.
Visit Avivah Zornberg's website for more information about this author and her writings.
About Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg Ph.D.
Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg was born in England to a rabbinic family. She studied at Gateshead seminary and at Cambridge University, where she received her PhD. She has taught to students in Israel at MaTaN, Jerusalem College for Adults, Midreshet Lindenbaum, and Pardes Institute, and lectures widely in the United States, Canada, and England. Zornberg is also the author of Particulars of Rapture: Reflections on Exodus (2001) and of The Murmuring Deep: Reflections on the Biblical Unconscious (2009).
