Israel in exile : Jewish writing and the desert /

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Examines how the ethical tension between the clashing Mosaic and Davidic paradigms of the desert reverberates in secular Jewish literature and produces literary rewards. This book argues that the ancient encounter with the desert acquires an urgency in response to the crisis brought about by nationa...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Omer-Sherman, Ranen
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2006]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Bible. > Old Testament > Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Bible. > Old Testament
Wilderness areas in literature.
Israeli literature > History and criticism.
Jewish literature > History and criticism.
Identity (Philosophical concept) in literature.
Réserves de la vie sauvage dans la littérature.
Littérature israélienne > Histoire et critique.
Littérature juive > Histoire et critique.
Identité dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Jewish.
Identity (Philosophical concept) in literature
Israeli literature
Jewish literature
Wilderness areas in literature
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Representing desert wilderness in Jewish narrative : poetics and politics
  • Justice and the old/new Jewish nation
  • Desert space and national consciousness
  • Immobilized rebels on the outskirts of the promised land
  • Sinai of the diasporic imagination
  • Wilderness as experience and metaphor.

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