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Article Excerpt
Wrestling with God & Men: Homosexuality in the Jewish Tradition
By Steven Greenberg
University of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 0-299-19090-0
HB, $35.00, 304 pp.
When we look to the influence of Greco-Roman tradition, we find traces of it in our law, art and other areas but no direct connection to the conduct of our lives. This is true to a certain extent with Christianity as well: The past is a palimpsest, overwritten by subsequent ages, but essentially static when it comes to interpretation of scripture. This is not the case with Judaism, which retains a vital link to its past. There really is no past, but a continuum of interpretation, teasing meaning from text, law and language. Rabbi Steven Greenberg's Wrestling with God & Men: Homosexuality in the Jewish Tradition is a testament to that tradition. Greenberg is a gay Orthodox rabbi, a "confounding oxymoron" in his words. For Greenberg, Orthodoxy "possesses the richest religious resources. It is...
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