Ancient Zionism: The Biblical Origins of the National IdeaSimon and Schuster, 15.6.2010 - 277 sivua 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. |
Kirjan sisältä
Tulokset 1 - 5 kokonaismäärästä 9
Sivu 3
... Sumeria , ingratiat- ed his way into Canaan and then bought his first toehold ; they also faced squarely the bloody details of Joshua's conquest of lands that had once belonged to others . In modern as well as ancient times , the Hebrew ...
... Sumeria , ingratiat- ed his way into Canaan and then bought his first toehold ; they also faced squarely the bloody details of Joshua's conquest of lands that had once belonged to others . In modern as well as ancient times , the Hebrew ...
Sivu 4
... Sumeria and Egypt , men became gods when they died , and the gods of men were dead . In Israel , however , the Land recalled the radical distinction between the everlasting creator and the mortals of His creation , thus freeing human ...
... Sumeria and Egypt , men became gods when they died , and the gods of men were dead . In Israel , however , the Land recalled the radical distinction between the everlasting creator and the mortals of His creation , thus freeing human ...
Sivu 8
... Sumeria , but the real problem for the 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 ...
... Sumeria , but the real problem for the 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 ...
Sivu 23
... Sumeria , in a land with science and architecture , commerce and law , mythology and poetry . The Sumerians invented cuneiform writing , the city - state , the codification of law , the potter's wheel , the art of fine measuring , which ...
... Sumeria , in a land with science and architecture , commerce and law , mythology and poetry . The Sumerians invented cuneiform writing , the city - state , the codification of law , the potter's wheel , the art of fine measuring , which ...
Sivu 24
... Sumeria failed him , despite its enamelwork and its vast public buildings , but he would not have been able to ... Sumeria's sumptuousness but on a mind - enlarging idea . This realization was left for Abraham , the son who became a ...
... Sumeria failed him , despite its enamelwork and its vast public buildings , but he would not have been able to ... Sumeria's sumptuousness but on a mind - enlarging idea . This realization was left for Abraham , the son who became a ...
Sisältö
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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Ancient Zionism: The Biblical Origins of the National Idea Avi Erlich Esikatselu ei käytettävissä - 1995 |
Yleiset termit ja lausekkeet
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
Suositut otteet
Sivu 217 - Lord God of Abraham, Isaac, and of Israel, let it be known this day that thou art God in Israel, and that I am thy servant, and that I have done all these things at thy word. Hear me, O Lord, hear me, that this people may know that thou art the Lord God, and that thou hast turned their heart back again.
Sivu 104 - Ye mountains of Gilboa, let there be no dew, neither let there be rain, upon you, nor fields of offerings : for there the shield of the mighty is vilely cast away, the shield of Saul, as though he had not been anointed with oil.
Sivu 234 - The archers have sorely grieved him, and shot at him, and hated him: But his bow abode in strength, and the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the mighty Go<J of Jacob : (from thence is the shepherd, the stone of Israel...
Sivu 108 - There were two men in one city; the one rich, and the other poor. The rich man had exceeding many flocks and herds : but the poor man had nothing, save one little ewe lamb, which he had bought and nourished up: and it grew up together with him, and with his children ; it did eat of his own meat, and drank of his own cup, and lay in his bosom and was unto him as a daughter.
Sivu 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.
Sivu 228 - Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age : and he made him a coat of many colours.
Sivu 237 - Then Joseph could not refrain himself before all them that stood by him ; and he cried, Cause every man to go out from me.
Sivu 216 - And Elijah came unto all the people, and said, How long halt ye between two opinions? if the Lord be God, follow him: but if Baal, then follow him.
Sivu 78 - And the LORD said unto Samuel, Hearken unto the voice of the people in all that they say unto thee: for they have not rejected thee, but they have rejected me, that I should not reign over them.
Sivu 174 - So the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them. For word came unto the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and he laid his robe from him, and covered him with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.