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Books by Author (published under the name Howard Eilberg-Schwartz)
God’s Phallus and Other Problems for Men and Monotheism. (Boston: Beacon, 1994). Research supported by a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation 1992-3.
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In hindsight (no pun intended) I wish I had never used such a provocative title. More
The Savage in Judaism: An Anthropology of Israelite Religion and Ancient Judaism. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1990). Winner of the 1991 American Academy of Religion “Award for Academic Excellence” in Religious Studies.
The Savage in Judaism argues that there should be no sharp distinction between so-called higher and lower religions. More.
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God’s Phallus and Other Problems for Men and Monotheism. (Boston: Beacon, 1994). Research supported by a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation 1992-3.
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In hindsight (no pun intended) I wish I had never used such a provocative title. More
The Savage in Judaism: An Anthropology of Israelite Religion and Ancient Judaism. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1990). Winner of the 1991 American Academy of Religion “Award for Academic Excellence” in Religious Studies.
The Savage in Judaism argues that there should be no sharp distinction between so-called higher and lower religions. More.
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Edited Volumes
People of the Body argues that because Jews and Judaism were associated with "higher" religions such as Christianity, aspects of embodiment were downplayed and ignored. These essays by various scholars explore the various dimensions Jewish embodiment in various cultural and historical moments.
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Off with Her Head: The Denial of Women’s Identity in Myth, Religion and Culture. Edited with Wendy Doniger. (Berkeley: The University of California Press, 1995).
Women are often associated with the body and therefore the female head is a rich site of symbolism raises questions about the relationship of the female and femininity to the mind and thought. These essays across various religious traditions explore how women's heads have been eroticized and decapitated in symbolism and ritual.
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People of the Body argues that because Jews and Judaism were associated with "higher" religions such as Christianity, aspects of embodiment were downplayed and ignored. These essays by various scholars explore the various dimensions Jewish embodiment in various cultural and historical moments.
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Off with Her Head: The Denial of Women’s Identity in Myth, Religion and Culture. Edited with Wendy Doniger. (Berkeley: The University of California Press, 1995).
Women are often associated with the body and therefore the female head is a rich site of symbolism raises questions about the relationship of the female and femininity to the mind and thought. These essays across various religious traditions explore how women's heads have been eroticized and decapitated in symbolism and ritual.
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Published Essays of Howard Eilberg-Schwartz
“Homoeroticism and the Father God: An Unthought in Freud’s Moses and Monotheism.” American Imago 51:1 (1994), 127-159.
“The Father, the Phallus, and the Seminal Word,” in Gender, Kinship and Power. Edited by M. J. Maynes and Ann Waltner. (New York: Routledge, 1995), 27-41.
“The Divine Cover-Up.” In Religious Reflections on the Human Body. Edited by Jane Marie Law. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1995).
“The Spectacle of the Female Head” and “The Nakedness of a Woman’s Voice, the Pleasure in a Man’s Mouth: An Oral History of Ancient Judaism,” pp. 1-14, 165-184. In Off with Her Head: The Denial of Women’s Identity in Myth, Religion and Culture, (Berkeley: The University of California Press, 1995).
“Introduction,” and “The Problem of the Body for the People of the Book,” pp. 1-16, 17-46. In People of the Body: Jews and Judaism from an Embodied Perspective, (Albany: SUNY, 1992). Originally published as “People of the Body: The Problem of the Body for the People of the Book.” In Journal for the History of Sexuality 2:1 (1991), 1-24.
“The Puzzling Rabbis.” Religion 23:1 (1993): 1-19. “Damned If You Do and Damned If You Don’t: Rabbinic Ambivalence Towards Sex and Body.” In Center for Hermeneutical Studies. Protocol Series. Vol. 61.
“Myth, Inference, and the Relativism of Reason: An Argument from the History of Judaism,” pp. 247-86. In Myth and Philosophy. Edited by Frank Reynolds and David Tracy. Albany: SUNY, 1990.
“Witches of the West: Neo-Paganism and Goddess Worship as Enlightenment Religions.” Journal for Feminist Studies in Religion 5:1 (1989):77-95.
“Israel in the Mirror of Nature: Animal Metaphors in the Ritual and Narratives of Ancient Israel.” Journal of Ritual Studies 2:1 (1988), 1-30. Reprinted in Beginnings in Ritual Studies. Edited by Ronald Grimes. (Charleston: Univ. of South Carolina Press, 1994)
“Who’s Kidding Whom?: A Serious Reading of Rabbinic Word Plays,” Journal of the American Academy of Religion 55:4 (1987), 65-78. Download.
“When the Reader is in the Write.” A Review Essay of Jose Faur’s, Golden Doves With Silver Dots. Prooftexts 7:2 (1987) 357-81.
“Creation and Classification in Judaism: From Priestly to Rabbinic Conceptions.” History of Religions 26:4 (1987), 357-81.
And still earlier, my first publication:
"Thyrotropin Receptors in Thyroid Plasma Membranes" The Journal of Biolgoical Chemistry. Vol. 250, No. 16. (August 25, 1975) 6509-6515. Published with with Ramon L. Tate, JoAnn M. Holmes and Leonard D. Kohn. Download.
“Homoeroticism and the Father God: An Unthought in Freud’s Moses and Monotheism.” American Imago 51:1 (1994), 127-159.
“The Father, the Phallus, and the Seminal Word,” in Gender, Kinship and Power. Edited by M. J. Maynes and Ann Waltner. (New York: Routledge, 1995), 27-41.
“The Divine Cover-Up.” In Religious Reflections on the Human Body. Edited by Jane Marie Law. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1995).
“The Spectacle of the Female Head” and “The Nakedness of a Woman’s Voice, the Pleasure in a Man’s Mouth: An Oral History of Ancient Judaism,” pp. 1-14, 165-184. In Off with Her Head: The Denial of Women’s Identity in Myth, Religion and Culture, (Berkeley: The University of California Press, 1995).
“Introduction,” and “The Problem of the Body for the People of the Book,” pp. 1-16, 17-46. In People of the Body: Jews and Judaism from an Embodied Perspective, (Albany: SUNY, 1992). Originally published as “People of the Body: The Problem of the Body for the People of the Book.” In Journal for the History of Sexuality 2:1 (1991), 1-24.
“The Puzzling Rabbis.” Religion 23:1 (1993): 1-19. “Damned If You Do and Damned If You Don’t: Rabbinic Ambivalence Towards Sex and Body.” In Center for Hermeneutical Studies. Protocol Series. Vol. 61.
“Myth, Inference, and the Relativism of Reason: An Argument from the History of Judaism,” pp. 247-86. In Myth and Philosophy. Edited by Frank Reynolds and David Tracy. Albany: SUNY, 1990.
“Witches of the West: Neo-Paganism and Goddess Worship as Enlightenment Religions.” Journal for Feminist Studies in Religion 5:1 (1989):77-95.
“Israel in the Mirror of Nature: Animal Metaphors in the Ritual and Narratives of Ancient Israel.” Journal of Ritual Studies 2:1 (1988), 1-30. Reprinted in Beginnings in Ritual Studies. Edited by Ronald Grimes. (Charleston: Univ. of South Carolina Press, 1994)
“Who’s Kidding Whom?: A Serious Reading of Rabbinic Word Plays,” Journal of the American Academy of Religion 55:4 (1987), 65-78. Download.
“When the Reader is in the Write.” A Review Essay of Jose Faur’s, Golden Doves With Silver Dots. Prooftexts 7:2 (1987) 357-81.
“Creation and Classification in Judaism: From Priestly to Rabbinic Conceptions.” History of Religions 26:4 (1987), 357-81.
And still earlier, my first publication:
"Thyrotropin Receptors in Thyroid Plasma Membranes" The Journal of Biolgoical Chemistry. Vol. 250, No. 16. (August 25, 1975) 6509-6515. Published with with Ramon L. Tate, JoAnn M. Holmes and Leonard D. Kohn. Download.
