The Nakedness of the Fathers: Biblical Visions and Revisions

by Alicia Suskin Ostriker

Book Overview

Like much twentieth-century feminist writing today, this book crosses the boundaries of genre. Biblical interpretation combines with fantasy, autobiography, and poetry. Politics joins with eroticism. Irreverence coexists with a yearning for the sacred. Scholarship contends with heresy. Most excitingly, the author continues and extends the tradition of arguing with God that commences in the Bible itself and continues now, as it has for centuries, to...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813521254
• ISBN13: 9780813521251
• Release Date: October 1994
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 260 Pages
• Weight: 1.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.3"