The Particulars of Rapture Reflections on Exodos

To her reading of the book of Exodus, Avivah Zornberg brings a vast array of biblical, talmudic, and midrashic interpretations; literary allusions; and insights from the worlds of philosophy and psychology.

Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg earned a Ph.D. in English literature from Cambridge University, and worked as a lecturer in the English Department at Hebrew University before turning to the teaching of religion. She has conducted classes in Torah for thousands of students at several different institutions in Israel. She also lectures widely in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom, and holds a visiting lectureship at the London School of Jewish Studies, an affiliate of the University of London.


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