02922nam 22005893u 450 991081637600332120240418051802.097802958047740295804777(CKB)3710000000072511(EBL)3444563(SSID)ssj0001061958(PQKBManifestationID)11606421(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001061958(PQKBWorkID)11110607(PQKB)10409138(MiAaPQ)EBC3444563(DE-B1597)726216(DE-B1597)9780295804774(EXLCZ)99371000000007251120151116d2013|||| u|| |engur|n|---|||||txtccrAgnon's Moonstruck Lovers The Song of Songs in Israeli Culture1st ed.Seattle University of Washington Press20131 online resource (208 p.)Samuel and Althea Stroum Lectures in Jewish StudiesDescription based upon print version of record.9780295993034 0295993030 ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""1. Introduction: Upon the Handles of the Lock""; ""2. The Song of Songs as Cultural Text: From the European Enlightenment to Israeli Biblicism""; ""3. Rechnitz's Botany of Love: The Song of Seaweed""; ""4. The Biblical Ethnographies of "Edo and Enam" and the Quest for the Ultimate Song""; ""Epilogue: Forevermore""; ""Appendix""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""Agnon's Moonstruck Lovers explores the response of Israel’s Nobel laureate S. Y. Agnon to the privileged position of the Song of Songs in Israeli culture. Standing at a unique crossroads between religion and secularism, Agnon probes the paradoxes and ambiguities of the Zionist hermeneutic project. In adopting the Song, Zionist interpreters sought to return to the erotic, pastoral landscapes of biblical times. Their quest for a new, uplifting, secular literalism, however, could not efface the haunting impact of allegorical configurations of love. With superb irony, Agnon's tales recast Israeli biblicism as a peculiar chapter within the ever-surprising history of biblical exegesis.Samuel and Althea Stroum Lectures in Jewish StudiesAgnon, Shmuel Yosef - Criticism, interpretation, etcLanguages & LiteraturesHILCCMiddle Eastern Languages & LiteraturesHILCCAgnon, Shmuel Yosef - Criticism, interpretation, etc.Languages & LiteraturesMiddle Eastern Languages & Literatures892.435Pardes Ilana1966-.1644717AU-PeELAU-PeELAU-PeELBOOK9910816376003321Agnon's Moonstruck Lovers3990735UNINA