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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Side 3
... literary construct , a landscape meant to be read for the monotheistic civilization it would come to represent . The ancient Hebrews took this second idea as the only possible justification for their seizure of lands that had formerly ...
... literary construct , a landscape meant to be read for the monotheistic civilization it would come to represent . The ancient Hebrews took this second idea as the only possible justification for their seizure of lands that had formerly ...
Side 5
... 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 calf . Already we are caught up in the text's iron- ic ...
... 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 calf . Already we are caught up in the text's iron- ic ...
Side 9
... literary narrative about the Hebrew mind and the relationship to the Land . The Bible demands a literary response now , just as it demanded a literary consciousness of the Hebrews in the past . Literacy was mandatory in Hebrew ...
... literary narrative about the Hebrew mind and the relationship to the Land . The Bible demands a literary response now , just as it demanded a literary consciousness of the Hebrews in the past . Literacy was mandatory in Hebrew ...
Side 10
... literary works , the Bible everywhere alludes to itself — sometimes indeed with more than human artfulness . This is so because it was made that way , by skillful hands in Babylon , where the literary output of the Jews undoubtedly ...
... literary works , the Bible everywhere alludes to itself — sometimes indeed with more than human artfulness . This is so because it was made that way , by skillful hands in Babylon , where the literary output of the Jews undoubtedly ...
Side 11
... literary placement of the arc that connects Moses and Samuel and Isaiah — and other actors in the story of Zion from its inception in the mind of Abraham to its redemption as imagined in the poetry of Ezekiel and in the stories of still ...
... literary placement of the arc that connects Moses and Samuel and Isaiah — and other actors in the story of Zion from its inception in the mind of Abraham to its redemption as imagined in the poetry of Ezekiel and in the stories of still ...
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.