Lesleigh Cushing Stahlberg
Biographic Data
| ID | 9201834 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lesleigh Cushing Stahlberg |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lesleigh Cushing |
| FAMILY NAME | Stahlberg |
| SIGNATURE | STAHLBERG L C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Colgate University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Beyond Modern Midrash
This article examines the biblical retellings of contemporary Jewish writers Michal Lemberger and Aimee Bender, situating their work within the tradition of rabbinic exegesis and proposing a more nuanced vocabulary for understanding their divergent engagements with scripture. While both writers can be viewed as modern midrashists, their modes of biblical return differ significantly. Lemberger’s After Abel exemplifies a contemporary form of peshat…
The Opposite of Jewish
Throughout the Bible, God repeatedly commands memory: the Israelites are to remember and keep the commandments. This essay considers the role of remembering and keeping a record of past generations as against remembering and keeping religious tradition. It investigates the way that recitation rather than ritual becomes the locus of memory in three contemporary Jewish novels: Dara Horn's In the Image (2002); Katie Singer's The Wholeness of a Broke…
Scrolls of Love
This book is edited by a Jew and a Christian who are united by a shared passion for the Bible and a common literary hermeneutic. It joins two biblical scrolls and gathers around them a diverse community of interpreters. It brings together Ruth and the Song of Songs, two seemingly disparate texts of the Hebrew Bible, and reads them through a number of methodological and theological perspectives. Respectful of traditional biblical scholarship, the …
Scrolls of Love
When Children Became People
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Scrolls of Love
This book is edited by a Jew and a Christian who are united by a shared passion for the Bible and a common literary hermeneutic. It joins two biblical scrolls and gathers around them a diverse community of interpreters. It brings together Ruth and the Song of Songs, two seemingly disparate texts of the Hebrew Bible, and reads them through a number of methodological and theological perspectives. Respectful of traditional biblical scholarship, the …
Scrolls of Love
When Children Became People
The Opposite of Jewish
Throughout the Bible, God repeatedly commands memory: the Israelites are to remember and keep the commandments. This essay considers the role of remembering and keeping a record of past generations as against remembering and keeping religious tradition. It investigates the way that recitation rather than ritual becomes the locus of memory in three contemporary Jewish novels: Dara Horn's In the Image (2002); Katie Singer's The Wholeness of a Broke…
Beyond Modern Midrash
This article examines the biblical retellings of contemporary Jewish writers Michal Lemberger and Aimee Bender, situating their work within the tradition of rabbinic exegesis and proposing a more nuanced vocabulary for understanding their divergent engagements with scripture. While both writers can be viewed as modern midrashists, their modes of biblical return differ significantly. Lemberger’s After Abel exemplifies a contemporary form of peshat…
History (3 works) · American Jewish Fiction Analysis (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Biblical Studies and Interpretation (2 works) · Citation (2 works) · Israelites (2 works) · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (2 works) · Judaism (2 works) · Library science (2 works) · Literature (2 works)