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Israel in Exile : Jewish Writing and the Desert

eBook, English, 2006
University of Illinois Press, Champaign, 2006
Criticism, interpretation, etc
1 online resource (233 pages)
9780252092022, 0252092023
1043354116
Front cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface; 1. Representing Desert Wilderness in Jewish Narrative: Poetics and Politics; 2. Justice and the Old/New Jewish Nation; 3. Desert Space and National Consciousness; 4. Immobilized Rebels on the Outskirts of the Promised Land; 5. Sinai of the Diasporic Imagination; 6. Wilderness as Experience and Metaphor; Notes; Works Cited; Index