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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... poets . I greatly admire Robert Alter's The Art of Biblical Narrative ( Basic Books , 1981 ) . But rereading Alter's impressive book now , I see how far we still are from appreciating the Hebrew synthesis , which demonstrates that a ...
... poets . I greatly admire Robert Alter's The Art of Biblical Narrative ( Basic Books , 1981 ) . But rereading Alter's impressive book now , I see how far we still are from appreciating the Hebrew synthesis , which demonstrates that a ...
Strona 12
... poetic language is too rich to tolerate the dry abstraction of any " ism . " Yet Zionism was alive in ancient Israel and portrayed by the old Hebrew writers , although without use of the term . In the Bible we find no word for ...
... poetic language is too rich to tolerate the dry abstraction of any " ism . " Yet Zionism was alive in ancient Israel and portrayed by the old Hebrew writers , although without use of the term . In the Bible we find no word for ...
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... poetic and more mystical . This obscures the initial Hebrew achievement , the invention of the very idea of a " national concept . " Other Jewish historians have also refrained from detailed analysis of the ancient Hebrew invention of ...
... poetic and more mystical . This obscures the initial Hebrew achievement , the invention of the very idea of a " national concept . " Other Jewish historians have also refrained from detailed analysis of the ancient Hebrew invention of ...
Strona 14
... poet whose hymns are traditionally sung at the Sabbath table to this day , the Zionism of the prayer book and of the medieval poets was not rooted in a possessed and possessable Land . Even though Rabbi Najara wrote in Safed and died as ...
... poet whose hymns are traditionally sung at the Sabbath table to this day , the Zionism of the prayer book and of the medieval poets was not rooted in a possessed and possessable Land . Even though Rabbi Najara wrote in Safed and died as ...
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... poetic achievement . Since the compilation of the Talmud , the light of law gleams so brightly in the traditional Jewish scholar's eye that he hardly can see the older flame , from which law and national song shine as one . The fact ...
... poetic achievement . Since the compilation of the Talmud , the light of law gleams so brightly in the traditional Jewish scholar's eye that he hardly can see the older flame , from which law and national song shine as one . The fact ...
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.