Article: Wrestling with God & Men: Homosexuality in the Jewish Tradition.(Book Review)

Wrestling with God & Men: Homosexuality in the Jewish Tradition, by Steven Greenberg. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2004. 304 pp. $35.00.

This interesting and unusual book, written by Steven Greenberg, an openly gay modern Orthodox rabbi known previously for his writing in Tikkun Magazine under the pseudonym Yaakov Levado and for his brief appearance in the documentary Trembling Before G-d, combines autobiographical narrative with exegesis of biblical and traditional Jewish texts which deal with, or allegedly deal with, homoeroticism. Its bold purpose: to fashion an "Orthodox argument" for the "inclusion of gay and lesbian Jews in the Orthodox ...

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