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Embarrassment and embracement are two moments in the reading, misreading and re-reading of scriptures, defined broadly to include both canonical and non-canonical texts. Despite what Harold Bloom calls our "belatedness" in this process, every reading community has its way of confronting that moment of embarrassment so as to re-embrace or reject its implications. These implications are especially strong in religious cultures with a nomian tradition. By entering into that very tension between what Fox calls embarrassment and re-embracement, every reader recognizes the anxiety of a narrative's influence upon a community. Papers dealing with different aspects of this phenomenon are part of a festschrift honoring Professor Harry Fox (LeBeit Yoreh) the originator of this seminal idea in the transmission of texts. Contributors include such scholars as Yaakov Elman, Simcha Fishbane, the late Chana Safrai and Tirzah Meacham as well as many students, colleagues and friends of Professor Fox
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ENGLISH CONTRIBUTIONS -- INTRODUCTION -- THE EMBARRASSMENT OF EMBARRASSMENT / Fox, Harry -- JUDAISM AND GENOCIDE: THE EMBARRASSMENT OF JEWISH JIHAD / Fox, Harry -- BIBLE -- A RE-EMBRACEMENT OF JUDGES 19: CHALLENGING PUBLIC-PRIVATE BOUNDARIES / Kriger, Diane -- SHEKHEM AND THE SO-CALLED RAPE OF DINA / Yoreh, Tzemah -- AN EMBARRASSMENT OF RICHES, A PRIDE OF DEPLETION AND THE AMBIGUITY OF ADDRESS / Segal, Miryam -- UNABASHEDLY READING DESIRED OUTCOMES INTO SCRIPTURE / Heger, Paul -- REWRITING AS WHITEWASHING: THE CASE OF REWRITTEN BIBLE / Najman, Hindy -- ESTABLISHING A SACRED CHURCH IN THE NEW TESTAMENT / Husband, Shana -- TALMUD AND MIDRASH -- “IT WAS NOT ACCORDING TO THE WILL OF THE SAGES”: HALAKHIC AND AGGADIC RESPONSES TO PINHAS’ KILLING OF ZIMRI AND KOZBI IN NUMBERS 25 / Clenman, Laliv -- EMBARRASSMENT AND RE-EMBRACEMENT OF A MIDRASH ON GENESIS 2:23 / Lawee, Eric -- DEUTERONOMY 21:10–14: THE BEAUTIFUL CAPTIVE WOMAN / Elman, Pearl -- A PEG TO HANG ON: METAPHOR, ANCESTRAL MERIT AND THE MIDRASHIC RELATIONSHIP OF DAVID AND SOLOMON / Mroczek, Eva -- FROM GLUTTON TO GANGSTER / Segal, Eliezer -- DID THE TANNAIM INTERPRET THE SONG OF SONGS SYSTEMATICALLY? LIEBERMAN RECONSIDERED / Gottstein, Alon Goshen -- THE HALAKHAH FOLLOWS RAVA… EXCEPT WHEN IT DOESN’T: A MEDITATION ON HALAKHIC DECISION-MAKING / Elman, Yaakov -- RABBINIC MINDSETS WITHIN THE UNIVERSAL MYTHIC STRUCTURES OF SACRED HISTORY: A FEW INTERESTING CASES / Basser, Herbert -- COUNT YOUR BLESSINGS: JEWISH MOURNING RITUALS DURING THE SPRING SEASON / Fishbane, Simcha -- COMIC INTERLUDE -- MAKING FISH FOR SHABBAT (YOMA 75A) / Kurshan, Ilana -- MEDIEVAL INTERPRETATION -- EMBARRASSMENT AS A MEANS OF EMBRACING AUTHORIAL INTENT / Ancselovits, Elisha S. -- THE DOUBLE PATH: THE TWO LAYERS OF THINKING AND THE TWOFOLD NATURE OF KNOWLEDGE IN THE WORKS OF SAADYA GAON / Hegedűs, Gyöngyi -- 410 EMBARRASSMENT AS A CREATIVE FORCE IN MAIMONIDES’ META-HALAKHIC ENUMERATION OF THE 613 COMMANDMENTS / Friedberg, Albert Dov -- TEACHING PHILOSOPHY TO THE MULTITUDE: AN INTRODUCTION TO THE EDUCATIONAL THEORY OF NISSIM BEN MOSHE OF MARSEILLES / Verskin, Alan -- MODERN -- RABBI NATAN SLIFKIN ON SCIENCE AND TORAH: THE EVOLUTION OF A SEARCH FOR TRUTH / Robinson, Ira -- MAPPING ALTERNATE TEXTS OF GENDER DIFFERENCE / Haberman, Bonna Devora -- HOW CAN THEY BE BETTER THAN US? EMBARRASSMENT AND LEGISLATION / Meacham, Tirzah -- “SUCH THINGS HAVE NEVER BEEN HEARD OF”: JEWISH INTELLECTUALS AND HASIDIC MIRACLES / Lewis, Justin Jaron -- “CHOSENNESS” / Elkin, Edward -- DURÉE, DEVEKUTH, & RE-EMBRACING THE GODLOVER: INVOLUTION OF UNIO MYSTICA VIA COLLOCATIVE HOMOSEXUELITY / Glazer, Aubrey L. -- ENVIRONMENTAL EMBARRASSMENT: GENESIS 1:26-28 VS. GENESIS 2:15 / Yoreh, Tanhum -- AFTERWORD -- VIXENS DISTURBING VINEYARDS: WHY FOX’S EMBRACEMENT OF SCRIPTURES CAN BE EMBARRASSING / Glazer, Aubrey -- HEBREW CONTRIBUTIONS -- העתקה עברית של רִסאלת אלחאתִמי: השוואה בין אמרות המיוחסות לאריסטו לבין בתי שיר למֻתַנבִַּי -- אשת יפת תואר בספרי ובפרשנות הקדומה -- ׳׳…וקצתה את כפה לא תחוס עינך׳׳ (דברים כה, יב) -- בין חכמים לציבור: כיצד נוצרה ההלכה שבתורה שבעל פה