Dear Safranim, Here is the announcement of my recently published book: The Bible Retold by Jewish Artists, Writers, Composers and Filmmakers Edited by Helen Leneman<http://www.sheffieldphoenix.com/browse.asp?auth=57>, Barry Dov Walfish<http://www.sheffieldphoenix.com/browse.asp?auth=284>.
Available from the usual sources. Helen Leneman and Barry Dov Walfish, both specialists in biblical reception history, have compiled an unusually rich collection of new essays by experts in their fields. This book is a pioneering attempt to portray and analyse the visions of twentieth- and twenty-first century Jewish artists working in different media-visual art, literature (novels, poetry and short stories), music (opera, oratorio and song), and film-who have retold biblical narratives through their art. Reading these essays together will bring a new appreciation and understanding of what makes the perspective of these visual artists, writers, composers and filmmakers on the Hebrew Bible uniquely Jewish. All of these Jewish visions can be considered a form of modern midrash, as the artists imaginatively fill in gaps in the biblical narrative, bringing a modern sensibility to the meanings of the stories. Under the heading 'Biblical Women', the stories of the matriarchs, Hagar, and other biblical women are re-imagined in the visual arts, poetry and music. Several further chapters focus on the story of the Aqedah (Binding of Isaac), as represented in the visual arts, literature and music. Other retellings of biblical narratives through short stories are then examined, while yet other chapters explore the books of Esther and Psalms as envisioned and retold in the visual arts, opera, literature and film These retellings, analysed and discussed by the authors of this ground-breaking volume, will stimulate the reader to view the texts in new ways or to confront their challenge to personal or traditional interpretations of those texts. Helen Leneman is an independent scholar, singer and pianist living in Bethesda, Maryland. Barry Dov Walfish is Judaica specialist at the University of Toronto Libraries and Curator of Judaica at the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library. Series: Bible in the Modern World<http://www.sheffieldphoenix.com/browse.asp?serid=2>, 71 978-1-909697-93-5 hardback Contents I. Biblical Women 1. Edna Southard Reclaiming the Biblical Narrative: Tradition, Innovation, and Gaze in Abel Pann's Art and Politics 2. Lynne Swarts Cultural Zionism, Gender and Orientalism: Ephraim Moses Lilien's Bibelplan and its Biblical Heroines 3. Rachel Adelman Breaking the Distaff of Silence - The Voice of Rachel the Matriarch in Modern Israeli Poetry 4. Ellen Frankel 'What troubles you, Hagar?' On Writing the Lyrics for 'Hagar' Andrea Clearfield Musical Commentary by the Composer II. The Aqedah 5. Yael S. Feldman Deliverance Denied: Isaac's Sacrifice in Israeli Arts and Culture: A Jewish-Christian Exchange ? 6. Nehama Aschkenasy Reversing the Aqedah: The Biblical and the Mystical in Grossman's 'To the End of the Land' 7. Siobhán Dowling Long The Death of Isaac: A Musical Retelling by Judith Lang Zaimont III. Biblical Narratives in Short Stories 8. Helen Leneman (and Ellen Feig) A Transgressive Re-telling of Exodus: 'Plagued' by Shalom Auslander 9.Wendy Zierler Ladders to the Sky: Jewish Hopes and Dreams IV. Esther 10. Barry Dov Walfish Images of Esther in Modern Jewish Art 11. Helen Leneman Esther Re-imagined in Jewish Opera 12. Naama Harel The Book of Esther and Persecutor-Persecuted Politics in Manger's Megile Lider and Gitai's Esther V. The Psalms 13. Max Stern and Helen Leneman Setting the Psalms to Music: Leonard Bernstein's Chichester Psalms 14. Roberta Lander Markus Spiritual Longings and their Expression in the Biblical Art of Benn Best wishes, Barry Dr. Barry Dov Walfish Judaica and Theology Specialist Collection Development Department and Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library University of Toronto Library 130 St. George St. Toronto, ON Canada M5S 1A5 Phone: 416-946-3176 or 416-978-4319 Fax: 416-978-1667 or 416-946-0635 e-mail: barry.walf...@utoronto.ca
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