The Murmuring Deep: Reflections on the Biblical Unconscious

A book that enhances our appreciation of the Bible—"explaining, exploring, and deepening our sense of what it means to be a human being of faith in a world as fractured and fragmentary as ours” (Forward).

Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg informs her literary analysis of the biblical text with concepts drawn from Freud, Winnicott, Laplanche, and other psychoanalytic thinkers to make a powerful argument for the idea that the creators of the midrashic commentary, the medieval rabbinic commentators, and...