Ancient Zionism: The Biblical Origins of the National IdeaSimon and Schuster, 15. jun. 2010 - 277 sider 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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... Israel's intellectual nationalism and led to our modern expectation that nations will repre- sent ideas and values , not merely powers and interests . The Hebrew Land became the object of imagination and poetry , and from this ...
... Israel's intellectual nationalism and led to our modern expectation that nations will repre- sent ideas and values , not merely powers and interests . The Hebrew Land became the object of imagination and poetry , and from this ...
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... Israel even when the phrase is uttered in the desert . In Hebrew culture to this day , “ the land , ” or “ this land , ” is the Land . What is this covenant ? Now the Lord had said unto Abram , Get thee out of thy country , and from thy ...
... Israel even when the phrase is uttered in the desert . In Hebrew culture to this day , “ the land , ” or “ this land , ” is the Land . What is this covenant ? Now the Lord had said unto Abram , Get thee out of thy country , and from thy ...
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... Hebrews was to eradicate the idolatry from their own breasts , to maintain instead the culture of literacy . Time and again they failed , just as they did in the episode of the golden calf . Instead of climbing the Land's high places to ...
... Hebrews was to eradicate the idolatry from their own breasts , to maintain instead the culture of literacy . Time and again they failed , just as they did in the episode of the golden calf . Instead of climbing the Land's high places to ...
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... Hebrews in the past . Literacy was mandatory in Hebrew civilization , for without it their culture could not survive and they could have no God . We are able to see this because Hebrew literacy in fact has shaped our own literary culture ...
... Hebrews in the past . Literacy was mandatory in Hebrew civilization , for without it their culture could not survive and they could have no God . We are able to see this because Hebrew literacy in fact has shaped our own literary culture ...
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The Biblical Origins of the National Idea Avi Erlich. and your asses , and put ... Hebrew judgment could be reconstituted : Thy princes are rebellious , and ... culture can in fact be one . “ I do not think , " writes Alter , atypically ...
The Biblical Origins of the National Idea Avi Erlich. and your asses , and put ... Hebrew judgment could be reconstituted : Thy princes are rebellious , and ... culture can in fact be one . “ I do not think , " writes Alter , atypically ...
Indhold
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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Aaron Abraham Ammon Ammonites ancient Hebrews ancient Zionism Arab Babylonia Balaam behold Bible blessing Boaz Canaan children of Israel conquest covenant daughter David Deuteronomy Diaspora dream earth Egyptian Ephron Esau Esther exile Exodus Ezekiel father Genesis God's Haman hand hath hatred Hebrew culture holy idea idolatry idols imagination inheritance intellectual nationalism invention Isaac Isaiah Jacob Jebusites Jephthah Jerusalem Jewish Jews Jonah Joseph Joshua Judah King Korah land of Egypt literal literary living Lord thy magic Manoah metaphor mind Moab Molech monotheism monotheistic Mordecai Moses Nazirite Nineveh Numbers Palestinian passage Pharaoh poetic poetry priest prophets rabbis readers redactors reign remind represent ritual Ruth sacrifice Samson Samuel Saul say unto servants Shechem Solomon story Sumeria Talmud Terah thee thine thou hast thou shalt thy seed told took understanding unto the Lord Uriah vision wife word Zion Zionism zohar
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Side 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.