Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg
Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg(born March 1944) is a Scottish contemporaryTorahscholar and author.
Biography[edit]
She was born inLondon,England,grew up inGlasgow,Scotland,[1]and moved to Israel in 1969, where she currently resides in Jerusalem.[2]Zornberg's father was Rabbi Dr. Wolf Gottlieb, Rabbi atQueen's Park Synagogue, Glasgowand head of Glasgow's rabbinical court (avbeit din). Zornberg is a descendant of prominent rabbis from Eastern Europe. Her parents settled in Austria. Zornberg's family fled Austria after the Nazi takeover which led to the collapse of Jewish life and subsequent genocide of the Holocaust. Zornberg holds a PhD fromCambridge Universityin English Literature.[3]
She began her Bible teaching career roughly around 1980.[1]She previously taught English literature at theHebrew University.Zornberg has grown to world acclaim through her writing and teaching of biblical commentary on the books of the Torah. She has lectured and taught internationally[3]and has appeared onPBS[4](the American television Public Broadcasting Service) inGenesis: A Living Conversation,a series of programs discussing theBook of Genesisproduced and hosted byBill Moyers.She has published four books regarding her thoughts, theories, and commentaries:The Beginning of Desire: Reflections on Genesis,[5]which won theNational Jewish Book Awardfor Nonfiction in 1995,[6]The Particulars of Rapture: Reflections on Exodus,andThe Murmuring Deep: Reflections on the Biblical Unconscious,which discusses selected passages from Genesis and other books of the Bible, including Jonah, Esther, and Ruth. 'Bewilderments: Reflections on the Book of Numbers' 2015.Moses: A Human Lifea biography of Moses, was published in November 2016 by the Yale University Press in their Jewish Lives series.[7]Her newest book,'The Hidden Order of Intimacy: Reflections on the Book of Leviticus' was published in March 2022 by Schocken.
Bibliography[edit]
- The Beginning of Desire: Reflections on Genesis(1995)
- The Particulars of Rapture: Reflections on Exodus(2001)
- The Murmuring Deep: Reflections on the Biblical Unconscious(2011)
- Bewilderments: Reflections on the Book of Numbers(2015)
- Moses: A Human Life(2016)
- The Hidden Order of Intimacy: Reflections on the Book of Leviticus(2022)
References[edit]
- ^ab"torahinmotion.org Biography".Archived fromthe originalon 14 September 2007.Retrieved16 December2006.
- ^"Interview with Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg".Archived fromthe originalon 8 August 2016.Retrieved10 February2013.
- ^abRandom House Canada,Author Spotlight: Avivah Gottlieb ZornbergArchivedSeptember 30, 2007, at theWayback Machine
- ^PBSGenesis:Participants
- ^Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg.The Beginning of Desire: Reflections on Genesis.New York: Image Books/Doubelday, 1995.ISBN0-385-48337-6.
- ^"Past Winners".Jewish Book Council.Archivedfrom the original on 5 June 2020.Retrieved24 January2020.
- ^Adelman, Rachel."Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg".Jewish Women's Archive.
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