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Taking Up the Timbrel: The Challenge of Creating Ritual for Jewish Women Today
Nigel Malin
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Taking Up the Timbrel: The Challenge of Creating Ritual for Jewish Women Today
Nigel Malin
Women rabbis give new meaning to old liturgical forms by using prayer and biblical verse in new contexts creating rituals for those many circumstances in life where women need and long for prayer.
Marc Notes: Includes some prayers in Hebrew with English translations.; Includes bibliographical references (p. [196]-200). Review Quotes: Not only does Taking up the timbrel introduce us to a variety of rituals, it also presents us with a variety of fascinating religious biographies.(...) They represent new features of piety, new religious role models that we seek and/or wish to become." Einat Ramon, NASHIM: A Journal of Jewish Women's Studies and Gender Issues, Issue 1, 2004.
Contributor Bio: Malin, Nigel Malin is Professor of Community Care and Divisional Research Coordinator at the University of Derby. His main teaching has been social policy on health and social work programmes. He is undertaking research on clinical supervision and practice. Contributor Bio: Sheridan, Sybil A rabbi and lecturer at the Leo Baeck College for the training of rabbis and teachers in progressive Judaism in London.
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | January 5, 2000 |
| ISBN13 | 9780334028062 |
| Publishers | SCM Press |
| Genre | Religious Orientation > Jewish - Religious Orientation > Christian |
| Pages | 144 |
| Dimensions | 138 × 215 × 14 mm · 282 g |
| Editor | Rothschild, Sylvia |
| Editor | Sheridan, Sybil |
