ReVisions: Seeing Torah through a Feminist Lens
What does it mean to re-vision Torah?
"I use the title ReVisions for this book because I want readers both to revise—in the classic definition of reexamine and alter—and to see the text anew, to have a new vision, a 'revision,' of Torah.... It begins with the notion that women see the text differently than men do, ask different questions and bring different answers.... This book is not about rewriting the Torah. It is about rereading it."
—from the Introduction
Rabbi Elyse Goldstein—woman, rabbi, scholar, and feminist—challenges and defends, rereads and reinterprets the ancient text, revealing to modern readers a way to see Judaism anew, for a new vision—a "revision"—of the Torah. Goldstein boldly brings the Torah into a contemporary context at the same time she honestly reconciles its past.
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Book details
- Author
- Elyse Goldstein
- Imprint
- Jewish Lights, an imprint of Turner Publishing Company
- Published
- Formats
- Paperback, Hardcover
- Subjects
- Religion › Judaism
Religion › Sexuality & Gender Studies - Topics
- feminist theology · women and Judaism · Jewish scripture · gender in religion · feminist interpretation · Judaism
- ISBN-13
- 9781580231176 (Paperback)9781683362685 (Hardcover)
About the author
ELYSE GOLDSTEIN is a Reform rabbi, scholar, and feminist author who founded Kolel: The Adult Centre for Liberal Jewish Learning in 1991 and served as its director for 20 years. Her books include New Jewish Feminism: Probing the Past, Forging the Future, The Women’s Haftarah Commentary and The Women’s Torah Commentary.
Goldstein received the Covenant Award for Outstanding Jewish Educators in 2005. Her book ReVisions: Seeing Torah through a Feminist Lens won the Canadian National Jewish Book Award in the field of Bible.
Goldstein is the founding Rabbi and Rabbi Emerita, as of June 2024, of City Shul, downtown Toronto’s Reform congregation. She was ordained by Hebrew Union College–Jewish Institute of Religion in New York in 1983.
Elyse lives in Toronto, Canada.