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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... readers , because these demands form the basis of our own literary sensibility . The story is a small part of the familiar narrative about Moses receiving the Law on Sinai while the restless Hebrews below seek a visible god in a golden ...
... readers , because these demands form the basis of our own literary sensibility . The story is a small part of the familiar narrative about Moses receiving the Law on Sinai while the restless Hebrews below seek a visible god in a golden ...
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... reading . In any case , what God has written , Moses is free to break . In fact , Moses becomes in this passage an author himself , a man of verbal power who diverts God's wrath by telling Him the story of the covenant . Our passage ...
... reading . In any case , what God has written , Moses is free to break . In fact , Moses becomes in this passage an author himself , a man of verbal power who diverts God's wrath by telling Him the story of the covenant . Our passage ...
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... reading of the Land in the midst of this wild scene of the Hebrews worshiping the golden calf . The metal forming it — so recently plucked from their own ears — is soon to be returned to their bodies , when Moses grinds up the calf and ...
... reading of the Land in the midst of this wild scene of the Hebrews worshiping the golden calf . The metal forming it — so recently plucked from their own ears — is soon to be returned to their bodies , when Moses grinds up the calf and ...
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... readers of the story of the golden calf would recognize in the melting of the golden orna- ments the related idolatrous urge to throw babies into the fire for the sake of this primitive fertility . In the idolator's world , the ...
... readers of the story of the golden calf would recognize in the melting of the golden orna- ments the related idolatrous urge to throw babies into the fire for the sake of this primitive fertility . In the idolator's world , the ...
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... reading , then , Tanach is not a loosely organized " canon " of divinely authored texts but a book with a specific human purpose . It is the Bible's redactors and not the voice of God in Moses's ear that allows the great lawgiver to ...
... reading , then , Tanach is not a loosely organized " canon " of divinely authored texts but a book with a specific human purpose . It is the Bible's redactors and not the voice of God in Moses's ear that allows the great lawgiver to ...
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.