02696nam 2200649Ia 450 991081823610332120200520144314.01-283-04406-497866130440680-252-09202-3(CKB)3390000000006646(OCoLC)811410289(CaPaEBR)ebrary10593749(SSID)ssj0000544024(PQKBManifestationID)11357476(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000544024(PQKBWorkID)10532281(PQKB)11238519(MiAaPQ)EBC3414077(MdBmJHUP)muse23850(Au-PeEL)EBL3414077(CaPaEBR)ebr10593749(CaONFJC)MIL304406(OCoLC)923495489(EXLCZ)99339000000000664620050727d2006 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierIsrael in exile Jewish writing and the desert /Ranen Omer-Sherman1st ed.Urbana University of Illinois Pressc20061 online resource (233 pages)Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-252-03043-5 Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-201) and index.Representing desert wilderness in Jewish narrative : poetics and politics -- Justice and the old/new Jewish nation -- Desert space and national consciousness -- Immobilized rebels on the outskirts of the promised land -- Sinai of the diasporic imagination -- Wilderness as experience and metaphor.Examines how the ethical tension between the clashing Mosaic and Davidic paradigms of the desert reverberates in secular Jewish literature and produces literary rewards. This book argues that the ancient encounter with the desert acquires an urgency in response to the crisis brought about by national identities and territorial conflicts.Wilderness areas in literatureIsraeli literatureHistory and criticismJewish literatureHistory and criticismIdentity (Philosophical concept) in literatureWilderness areas in literature.Israeli literatureHistory and criticism.Jewish literatureHistory and criticism.Identity (Philosophical concept) in literature.892.4/0932154Omer-Sherman Ranen1603507MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910818236103321Israel in exile4076996UNINA