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A Different Kind of Romance: Ruth, Naomi & Boaz

Jewish Literary Foundation presents Book Week 24

Sun 10 Mar
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A Different Kind of Romance: Ruth, Naomi & Boaz

Jewish Literary Foundation presents Book Week 24

Speaker Deborah Kahn Harris
Chair Lisa J. Grushcow

Rabbi Deborah Kahn-Harris asks if the Book of Ruth offers a different sort of love story.


Is the Book of Ruth a romance? What role does Hesed play? And who exactly is romancing who?

Rabbi Deborah Kahn-Harris’ new book Polyamory and Reading the Book of Ruth is based on a simple premise: what if this ancient Hebrew religious text isn’t in the vein of modern romcoms, but a different sort of love story? Drawing on developments in both feminist and queer biblical studies, the principal of Leo Baeck College offers a close textual reading that focuses in on a triadic basis for examining the relationships.

Buy a copy of Polyamory & Reading the Book of Ruth by Deborah Kahn Harris.

The event will last approximately 1 hour, without an interval.


About the Speakers:

Deborah Kahn-Harris is ordained rabbi and Principal, Leo Baeck College in London, where she also lectures in Hebrew Bible.

Rabbi Lisa J. Grushcow, D.Phil., is senior rabbi of Temple Emanu-El-Beth Sholom in Montreal, Canada. She is currently a visiting scholar at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies. Her publications include Writing the Wayward Wife: Rabbinic Interpretations of Sotah, The Sacred Encounter: Jewish Perspectives on Sexuality, and Communities of Meaning: Conversations on Modern Jewish Life Inspired by Rabbi Larry Hoffman.

Date:Sun 10 Mar
Start time:2pm (Doors: 1.30pm)
Venue:Limehouse Room

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