Holy Envy: Writing in the Jewish Christian Borderzone
What is between us and the Christians is a deep dark affair which will go for another hundred generations . . .” (Amos Oz, Judas)Among the great social shifts of the post–World War II era is the unlikely sea-change in Jewish Christian relations. We read each other’s scriptures and openly discuss dif...
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Format: | Electronic Book |
Language: | English |
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New York, NY
Fordham University Press
2022
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In: | Year: 2022 |
Reviews: | [Rezension von: Shreiber, Maeera, 1956-, Holy envy : Writing in the Jewish Christian Borderzone] (2024) (Barnat, Dara)
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Further subjects: | B
Judaism
Relations
Christianity
B Judaism in literature B Literature B LITERARY CRITICISM / Jewish B Christianity B Holy Insecurity B Christianity and other religions Judaism B Christianity and other religions in literature B Judaism B Holy Envy B Interfaith relations B Poetry B Borders |
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Summary: | What is between us and the Christians is a deep dark affair which will go for another hundred generations . . .” (Amos Oz, Judas)Among the great social shifts of the post–World War II era is the unlikely sea-change in Jewish Christian relations. We read each other’s scriptures and openly discuss differences as well as similarities. Yet many such encounters have become rote and predictable. Powerful emotions stirred up by these conversations are often dismissed or ignored. Demonstrating how such emotions as shame, envy, and desire can inform these encounters, Holy Envy: Writing in the Jewish Christian Borderzone charts a new way of thinking about interreligious relations. Moreover, by focusing on modern and contemporary writers (novelists and poets) who traffic in the volatile space between Judaism and Christianity, the book calls attention to the creative implications of these intense encounters.While recognizing a long-overdue need to address a fundamentally Christian narrative underwriting twentieth century American verse, Holy Envy does more than represent Christianity as an aesthetically coercive force, or as an adversarial other. For the book also suggests how literature can excavate an alternative interreligious space, at once risky and generative. In bringing together recent accounts of Jewish Christian relations, affect theory, and poetics, Holy Envy offers new ways into difficult and urgent, conversations about interreligious encounters.Holy Envy is sure to engage readers who are interested in literature, religion, and, above all, interfaith dialogue |
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ISBN: | 1531501753 |
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1515/9781531501754 |