1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910452584603321

Autore

Raz Avi

Titolo

The bride and the dowry [[electronic resource] ] : Israel, Jordan, and the Palestinians in the aftermath of the June 1967 War / / Avi Raz

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Haven, : Yale University Press, 2012

ISBN

1-280-77218-2

9786613682956

0-300-18353-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xxxiii, 438 p. ) : maps

Disciplina

956.046

Soggetti

Arab-Israeli conflict - 1967-1973

Israel-Arab War, 1967

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Maps -- Prologue. Two Peoples, One Land -- Preface -- Dramatis Personae -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- One. The Two Options: 5 June- Early July 1967 -- Two. The Jerusalem Syndrome: Late June- July 1967 -- Three. In Search of Docile Leadership: July- September 1967 -- Four. The Right of No Return: June- September 1967 -- Five. An Entity versus a King: September- November 1967 -- Six. A One- Way Dialogue: December 1967- January 1968 -- Seven. Go- Betweens: February- Early May 1968 -- Eight. The Double Game Redoubled: Mid- May-October 1968 -- Nine. "The Whole World Is Against Us": Epilogue -- Notes -- Sources and Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Israel's victory in the June 1967 Six Day War provided a unique opportunity for resolving the decades-old Arab-Zionist conflict. Having seized the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, the Sinai Peninsula, and the Golan Heights, Israel for the first time in its history had something concrete to offer its Arab neighbors: it could trade land for peace. Yet the political deadlock persisted after the guns fell silent. This book sets out to find out why.Avi Raz places Israel's conduct under an uncompromising lens. He meticulously examines the critical two years following the June war



and substantially revises our understanding of how and why Israeli-Arab secret contacts came to naught. Mining newly declassified records in Israeli, American, British, and UN archives, as well as private papers of individual participants, Raz dispels the myth of overall Arab intransigence and arrives at new and unexpected conclusions. In short, he concludes that Israel's postwar diplomacy was deliberately ineffective because its leaders preferred land over peace with its neighbors. The book throws a great deal of light not only on the post-1967 period but also on the problems and pitfalls of peacemaking in the Middle East today.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910795278503321

Titolo

The hagiographical experiment : developing discourses of sainthood / / edited by Christa Gray, James Corke-Webster

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden ; ; Boston : , : Brill, , [2020]

©2020

ISBN

90-04-42133-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Collana

Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae ; ; Volume 158

Disciplina

229.925

Soggetti

Christian hagiography - History and criticism

Christian literature - History and criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sommario/riassunto

"The Hagiographical Experiment: Developing Discourses of Sainthood throws fresh light on narratives about Christian holy men and women from Late Antiquity to Byzantium. Rather than focusing on the relationship between story and reality, it asks what literary choices authors made in depicting their heroes and heroines: how they positioned the narrator, how they responded to existing texts, how they utilised or transcended genre conventions for their own purposes, and how they sought to relate to their audiences. The literary focus of



the chapters assembled here showcases the diversity of hagiographical texts written in Greek, Latin, Coptic, and Syriac, as well as pointing out the ongoing conversations that connect them. By asking these questions of this diverse group of texts, it illuminates the literary development of hagiography in the late antique, Byzantine, and medieval periods".