Roberta Sabbath
Biographic Data
| ID | 1603155 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Roberta Sabbath |
| GIVEN NAMES | Roberta |
| FAMILY NAME | Sabbath |
| SIGNATURE | SABBATH R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Nevada, Las Vegas |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4009-7284 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
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Sacred Other
The American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) conference,held on 23-26 March 2006 at Princeton University, featured over 120 panels,each with about three presenters. The theme of the conference, “The Humanand Its Other,” inspired a broad spectrum of imaginative considerations ofthis fascinating topic. The field of comparative literature specializes in interdisciplinarywork that crosses the boundaries of language, nationality, culture,his…
Sacred Tropes
Contemporary sacred text scholarship has been stimulated by a number of intersecting trends: a surging interest in religion, sacred texts, and inspirational issues; burgeoning developments in and applications of literary theories; intensifying academic focus on diverse cultures whether for education or scholarship. Although much has been written individually about Tanakh, New Testament, and Qur’an, no collection combines an examination of all thr…
Sacred tropes
Jouissance and Trauma in Sarah's Laugh and Aporia
VaYera' begins with Sarah's laughter at the announcement of her future maternity. Later she laughs in what seems a self-deprecatory manner at Isaac's birth and her nursing the child. Sarah also speaks. God listens. She insists that Abraham expel Hagar and Ishmael. Abraham resists. God insists that he listen to Sarah. Then Sarah goes silent—a traumatic textual aporia. Bereishit Rabbah and midrashic tannaim suggest a one-dimensional reading of a Sa…
The Schlemiel and the Messianic in Michael Chabon’s The Yiddish Policemen’s Union and Nicole Krauss’s Forest Dark
The Jewish diaspora of the United States views the historical sequence of Holocaust, known more accurately as the Shoah, and creation of the State of Israel as connected in an apocalyptic-redemptive narrative typology. The Nazi regime murdered six million Jews, including one and one-half million children, based on racial hatred and seven million others deemed undesirable. In 1949, four years after the defeat of the Nazi regime and liberation from…
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Introducing students to the similarities and connections among the Hebrew Bible, New Testament, and Qur'an is a means to introduce students to a shared source of humanity, beauty, wisdom, and solace. This article outlines a literature class that uses comparatist strategies to introduce these three foundational religious texts as literary works. Figural and thematic strategies reveal the development of stories, characters, ideas, and values. Cultu…
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