Queering the Text: Biblical, Medieval, and Modern Jewish Stories"Andrew Ramer's new book, Queering the Text: Biblical, Medieval, and Modern Jewish Stories , grapples with traditional midrashim, plays with homoerotic love poems from medieval Spain, and envisions alternate versions of the present. Inspired by the pioneering work of Jewish feminists, using the same narrative tools as the rabbis of old, Ramer has crafted stories that anchor LGBT lives in the three thousand year old history of the Jewish people. "The universe is made up of stories, not atoms," wrote poet Muriel Ruckeyser. The stories in this book will transport you to a new universe - the one we are striving to create, right here and now"--Page 4 of cover. |
Contents
Let There Be Life ב | 4 |
The Seeker ג | 6 |
The Makers of Beauty ד | 8 |
The Messenger ה | 10 |
The Cave of Pleasure ו | 14 |
On Bended Knee ז | 18 |
Healing Hands ח | 22 |
The Tent of Miriam ט | 26 |
Before Arvit | 96 |
The Vizier | 100 |
In the Marketplace | 106 |
The Hidden Mirror | 110 |
Before there was Law | 116 |
My Forsaken Garden | 118 |
The Christian | 120 |
The Commandments | 124 |
And They Made Sacred י | 30 |
The Academy of Women כ | 34 |
Tossed by Wind ל | 36 |
An Altar in the Sand מ | 40 |
The Wooden Box נ | 44 |
The Holy One ס | 46 |
The Chariot of Flames ע | 50 |
The Secret of the Text פ | 52 |
In the Vineyard of Dreams צ | 56 |
From a Shelf on the 613th Floor ק | 60 |
In the Heart of the Heart of the Palace ר | 64 |
The World to Come ש | 68 |
The Messiahs Study ת | 70 |
A l A n d a l u s TALES OF AN IMAGINARY SPAIN | 72 |
Remembering Spain | 74 |
Reading Shemot | 78 |
In Granada | 82 |
The Rabbi and the Court Physician | 86 |
Erev Shabbat | 92 |
Twice a Heretic | 128 |
Toledo in Winter | 134 |
The Tutor | 136 |
The Dreamer and the Dream | 140 |
The Street of Butchers | 144 |
While Praying | 148 |
The Rabbis Dilemma | 152 |
In the Domed Hall | 156 |
Before the Expulsion | 162 |
A v o d a h DIVINE SERVICE | 170 |
Shacharit Light in the Tree | 172 |
Musaf Pink Izzy | 188 |
Mincha Gazing out of a Window | 204 |
Maariv The Return of the Hebrew Bedouin | 220 |
A f t e r wo r d RABBI CAMILLE SHIRA ANGELand RABBI DEV NOILY | 240 |
Acknowledgments | 248 |
A Note from the Text Designer | 252 |
About the Author | 256 |
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