DownloadThe Portobello Bookshop Gift Guide 2024

Israel in Exile

Jewish Writing and the Desert

Ranen Omer-Sherman author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:University of Illinois Press

Published:16th Mar '06

Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back

Israel in Exile cover

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.The idea of the desert as catalyst for compelling questions about justice and community in Jewish writing

"Israel in Exile evokes the importance of a critical and subversive Diaspora perspective for an Israeli society that has not yet found its territorial and individual identity. . . . Raises important questions for the political situation in Israel today."--Shofar


"An invaluable addition to scholarship on Jewish literature both biblical and contemporary."--Journal of Jewish Identities
"This is an important book."--Religion & Literature

ISBN: 9780252030437

Dimensions: 229mm x 152mm x 23mm

Weight: 513g

232 pages