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Diane Ackerman
Co-sponsored with CSB Fine Arts Programming
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Poet, essayist, and naturalist, Diane Ackerman has published two dozen works of nonfiction and poetry, which include the best-selling A Natural History of the Sense. Her newest book, One Hundred Names for Love, was among the finalists for the 2012 Pulitzer Prize and National Book Critic's Circle Award.
Friday, February 8th, 7:30 p.m.
Gorecki Theater, CSB
Tickets: $24, Seniors $21, Faculty/Staff $14, Students/Youth $10
Marie Howe
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Co-sponsored with CSB Fine Arts Programming
Marie Howe has published three collections of poetry, with two of those three chosen for the National Poetry Series, Lavan Young Poets Prize, and Publisher's Weekly as among the five best poetry collections of the year. In addition to poetry, she has co-edited an essay anthology on the AIDS pandemic, an issue near to her heart from her brother's death.
Monday, March 18th, 7:00 p.m.
Gorecki Theater, CSB
Avivah Zornberg
Letter from an Unknown Woman: Joseph's Dream
Wednesday, April 17, 7:30 p.m.
Gorecki Center 204A, College of Saint Benedict
In the Book of Genesis, Joseph dreams provocative dreams; his brothers' hatred grows because of them; Jacob apparently dismisses them. But according to Freud, all dreams contain a "navel," a spot that defies understanding, that “reaches into the unknown.” According to a classic rabbinic interpretation, that unfathomable element in the lives of Jacob and his son Joseph is represented by Rachel, the “unknown woman” in their narrative. Avivah Zornberg, one of the world’s most captivating teachers of Torah, will draw on literature, film, and psychoanalytic thought to inform her literary analysis of this narrative, exposing the complex interplay between conscious and unconscious levels of experience reflected in the narrative’s message about what it means to be human.
Avivah Zornberg earned a Ph.D. in English literature from Cambridge University and holds a visiting lectureship in the London School of Jewish Studies. After teaching English literature at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Zornberg turned to teaching Torah in a number of venues in Jerusalem where she has drawn thousands of students to her lectures. Employing insights from rabbinic literature, philosophy, and psychoanalysis, she advances highly original literary analyses of biblical texts. She is the author of three books that have been widely acclaimed as masterpieces of biblical interpretation: Genesis: The Beginning of Desire (Jewish Publication Society, 1995), renamed The Beginning of Desire: Reflections on Genesis (Schocken, 2011), which won the National Jewish Book Award; The Particulars of Rapture: Reflections on Exodus (Doubleday, 2001; Schocken, 2011); and The Murmuring Deep: Reflections on the Biblical Unconscious (Schocken 2009).
Sponsored by the Literary Arts Institute of the College of Saint Benedict in collaboration with the Jay Phillips Center for Interfaith Learning, a joint enterprise of Saint John’s University and the University of St. Thomas.
Free and open to the public
The Murmuring Deep
Moses' Speech Inhibition as Pivotal Issue in the Exodus Narrative
Thursday, April 18, 7:30 p.m.
Adath Jeshurun Congregation--Sanctuary
10500 Hillside Lane West, Minnetonka
Drawing on midrashic and Hasidic sources, as well as on philosophical and psychoanalytical thinking, Avivah Zornberg, one of the world’s most captivating teachers of Torah, will explore the nature of Moses' speech inhibition and explain why she considers this to be a pivotal issue in the Exodus narrative.
Avivah Zornberg earned a Ph.D. in English literature from Cambridge University and holds a visiting lectureship in the London School of Jewish Studies. After teaching English literature at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, she turned to teaching Torah in a number of venues in Jerusalem where she has drawn thousands of students to her lectures. Employing insights from rabbinic literature, philosophy, and psychoanalysis, she advances highly original literary analyses of biblical texts. She is the author of three books that have been widely acclaimed as masterpieces of biblical interpretation: Genesis: The Beginning of Desire (Jewish Publication Society, 1995), renamed The Beginning of Desire: Reflections on Genesis (Schocken, 2011), which won the National Jewish Book Award; The Particulars of Rapture: Reflections on Exodus (Doubleday, 2001; Schocken, 2011); and The Murmuring Deep: Reflections on the Biblical Unconscious (Schocken 2009).
Sponsored by the Literary Arts Institute of the College of Saint Benedict in collaboration with the Jay Phillips Center for Interfaith Learning, a joint enterprise of Saint John’s University and the University of St. Thomas, and with Adath Jeshurun Congregation