Ancient Zionism: The Biblical Origins of the National IdeaSimon and Schuster, 15 cze 2010 - 277 In this unusual and provocative book, Victor Erlich uncovers the origins of the national idea in the Hebrew Bible. Through a series of sensitive and original readings of well-known biblical episodes, Erlich argues that ancient Zionism was not an ideological construct but rather a unique marriage of literary imagination and ethnic pride. |
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... living God who had created the entire universe and thus did not seek the mindless sacrifice of children . Created in this God's image , the Hebrews would read from the Land the possi- bility of elevating the human mind above bloody ...
... living God who had created the entire universe and thus did not seek the mindless sacrifice of children . Created in this God's image , the Hebrews would read from the Land the possi- bility of elevating the human mind above bloody ...
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... living Creator . Abraham , whom Moses evokes on Sinai , wished to separate himself from the idolators of Sumeria , but the real problem for the Hebrews was to eradicate the idolatry from their own breasts , to maintain instead the ...
... living Creator . Abraham , whom Moses evokes on Sinai , wished to separate himself from the idolators of Sumeria , but the real problem for the Hebrews was to eradicate the idolatry from their own breasts , to maintain instead the ...
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... living . But Buber's On Zion does not focus on ancient Zionism , following instead its subtitle , The History of an Idea , into centuries less rigorously poetic and more mystical . This obscures the initial Hebrew achievement , the ...
... living . But Buber's On Zion does not focus on ancient Zionism , following instead its subtitle , The History of an Idea , into centuries less rigorously poetic and more mystical . This obscures the initial Hebrew achievement , the ...
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Spis treści
Land and Intellect | 21 |
Land and Literacy | 37 |
Land and Law | 53 |
Land and Loot | 69 |
History and Hell | 85 |
David in Zion | 99 |
Brickkiln and Winepress | 113 |
Ritual in the Land | 127 |
Landless and Illiterate | 169 |
The Ancient Hatred of Zionism | 181 |
The Hebrew Mind in Diaspora | 197 |
Zohar | 211 |
A Bough Over the Wall | 225 |
Zion as Tragicomedy | 241 |
Ancient Zionism and Its Modern Competitors | 255 |
Acknowledgments | 271 |
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Strona 4 - And when the people saw that Moses delayed to come down out of the mount, the people gathered themselves together unto Aaron, and said unto him, Up, make us gods, which shall go before us ; for as for this Moses, the man that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we wot not what is become of him.