SUNY series in modern Jewish literature and culture
GENERAL NOTES
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Papers of a conference sponsored by the Lechter Institute for Literary Research in cooperation with the Kaplan Fund for American Literature, held in the fall of 1989 at Bar-Ilan University, Israel.
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references.
CONTENTS NOTE
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Power and constraint / Harold Fisch -- Biblical covenants as performative language / Gerda Elata-Alster and Rachel Salmon -- Facing the other / Susan Handelman -- The difficulty of finding a moral basis for accepting the covenant / Daniel Statman -- The perpetual convenant in Jewish learning / Menachem Fisch -- The sign of the covenant / Betty Rojtman -- Redesigning redemption / Betsy Halpern-Amaru -- Placing reading / Daniel Boyarin -- Binding and unbinding / Elizabeth Freund -- American literature's declaration of In/dependence / Emily Miller Budick -- Intertextuality and reader responsibility / Sharon Deykin Baris -- "The new convenant" and the dilemma of dissensus / Sam B. Girgus.