Includes bibliographical references (p. 419-423) and index.
Contents:
Seduced into Eden: the beginning of desire -- Despondent intoxication: the flood -- Jonah: a fantasy of flight -- Esther: "mere anarchy is loosed upon the world" -- In the vale of soul-making: Abraham's journey -- Abraham bound and unbound: the akeda -- "Her own foreigner": Rebecca's pregnancy -- Blindness and blessing: Isaac trembles twice -- "And I did not know-- " : the secret of prayer -- The pit and the rope: recovering Joseph -- "What if Joseph hates us?": closing the book -- Law and narrative in the book of Ruth.
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