{"product_id":"the-murmuring-deep-reflections-on-the-biblical-unconscious","title":"The Murmuring Deep: Reflections on the Biblical Unconscious","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom one of the most innovative and acclaimed biblical commentators at work today  here is a revolutionary analysis of the intersection between religion and psychoanalysis in the stories of the men and women of the Bible.  For centuries scholars and rabbis have wrestled with the biblical narrative  attempting to answer the questions that arise from a plain reading of the text. In The Murmuring Deep  Avivah Zornberg informs her literary analysis of the text with concepts drawn from Freud  Winnicott  Laplanche  and other psychoanalytic thinkers to give us a new understanding of the desires and motivations of the men and women whose stories form the basis of the Bible. Through close readings of the biblical and midrashic texts  Zornberg makes a powerful argument for the idea that the creators of the midrashic commentary  the medieval rabbinic commentators  and the Hassidic commentators were themselves on some level aware of the complex interplay between conscious and unconscious levels of experience and used this knowledge in their interpretations.  In her analysis of the stories of Adam and Eve  Noah  Jonah  Abraham  Rebecca  Isaac  Joseph and his brothers  Ruth  and Estherhow they communicated with the world around them  with God  and with the various parts of their selvesZornberg offers fascinating insights into the interaction between consciousness and unconsciousness. In discussing why God has to seduce Adam into entering the Garden of Eden or why Jonah thinks he can hide from God by getting on a ship  Zornberg enhances our appreciation of the Bible as the foundational text in our quest to understand what it means to be human.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44959997624373,"sku":"ByrdShop_0805242473","price":27.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780805242478.jpg?v=1770381741","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-murmuring-deep-reflections-on-the-biblical-unconscious","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}