Books by Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg

4. Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg, Bewilderments: Reflections on the Book of Numbers .  Imagine taking an underdiscussed (by most people) book of the Bible and showing its connections to politics and the legitimation of authority, to spiritual yearning, to overcoming trauma, and to Freudian and other psychoanalytic theories of the ambiguity of desire.  This is all done from a theologically Jewish point of view, incorporating the midrash as well.  That may sound like a bit much, but I found this book f...