Avivah Zornberg Bio 

Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg is the author of

The Murmuring Deep: Reflections on the Biblical Unconscious published by Schocken in March, 2009. Paperback Schocken 2011

Genesis: The Beginning of Desire (for which she won the National Jewish Book Award) JPS 1995; paperback Schocken 2011, renamed The Beginning of Desire: Reflections on Genesis

The Particulars of Rapture: Reflections on Exodus. (Doubleday 2001) Paperback Schocken 2011 

Her next book on the Book of Numbers will be published by Schocken in 2014.

Her publications also include:

‘Let me see that good land: The Story of a Human Life,’ in Answering a Question with a Question: Contemporary Psychoanalysis and Jewish Thought, edited by Lewis Aron and Libby Henik (Academic Studies Press, 2009), 236-264.

'Jonah: A Fantasy of Flight,' in Psychoanalytic Dialogues, Vol.18, No.3, May-June, 2008, 271-299

 'Seduced into Eden: The Beginning of Desire,' in Longing: Psychoanalytic Musings on Desire, edited by Jean Petrucelli (Karnac, 2006), 193-225.

 'Cries and Whispers: The Death of Sarah,' in Beginning Anew: A Woman's Companion to the High Holy Days, edited by Gail Twersky Reimer and Judith A.Kates (Touchstone, Simon & Schuster, New York, 1997), 174-200.

 'The Concealed Alternative,' in Reading Ruth, edited by Gail Twersky Reimer and Judith A.Kates (Ballantine, 1994), 65-81.

 She was born in London and grew up in Glasgow, Scotland, where her father was a Rabbi and the head of the Rabbinical Court.  She studied with him from childhood; he was her most important teacher of Torah. She holds a BA and PhD in English Literature from Cambridge University. After teaching English literature at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, she turned to teaching Torah. For the past twenty-five years, she has taught Torah in Jerusalem at Matan, Yakar, Pardes and the Jerusalem College for Adults. Dr. Zornberg also holds a Visiting Lectureship at the London School of Jewish Studies. She travels widely, lecturing in Jewish, academic and psychoanalytic settings.