Torah Queeries: Weekly Commentaries on the Hebrew Bible
“This unique and lively work blends the traditional Jewish format of dividing Torah into weekly portions with specifically queer perspectives on them.Torah Queeriesunveils a new queer Jewish way to understand this most sacred and central text that will surely stimulate and challenge the reader.”-Rabbi Rebecca T. Alpert,author ofWhose Torah? A Concise Guide to Progressive Judaism“Provides a challenge to readers and preachers who are single-mindedly devoted to the straight and narrow.”-Daniel Boyarin,author ofCarnal Israel: Reading Sex in Talmudic Culture“Gives engaged, pertinent, GLBT-focused meaning to the Tanach. The analyses offered here work to break boundaries, queer-ing, celebrating, and re-creating our Jewish texts and traditions in meaningful ways. These acts of reading become the radical movement of making a space for GLBT Jews that is clever, humorous, loving, and thought-provoking.”-Rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum,Congregation Beth Simchat Torah, New York“This book, an indispensable resource for all teachers and learners of Torah, in the best way possible makes queers of us all.”-Jewish Currents,“Rabbi Joshua Lesser . . . believes it is time for LGBT people to move beyond simply defending their identities from biblically based attacks. As one of the three editors ofTorah Queeries: Weekly Commentaries on the Hebrew Bible, he hopes to push such discussions to a new, more complex level.”-Southern Voice,