Re-Biographing and Deviance

Download or read book Re-Biographing and Deviance written by Mordecha Rotenberg and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1987 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Re-Biographing and Deviance examines the Jewish Midrashic model for self-renewal through time. In this important new study, author Rotenberg questions how traditional Judaism, with its contradictory notions of teshuvah (repentance) and of remembrance of the past, allows for the contemporary Jew to maintain a healthy cognitive dialogue between past failures and future aspirations. The author illustrates how the Midrashic narrative philosophy entails a psychotherapeutic system for reinterpretation of past sins into positive future-oriented biographies--which in turn provide fuel for Jewish vitality and its continuity between past, present and future.