Ancient Zionism: The Biblical Origins of the National IdeaSimon and Schuster, 2010 M06 15 - 277 pages 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. |
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... God , a living God who had created the entire universe and thus did not seek the mindless sacrifice of children . Created in this God's image , the Hebrews would read from the Land the possi- bility of elevating the human mind above ...
... God , a living God who had created the entire universe and thus did not seek the mindless sacrifice of children . Created in this God's image , the Hebrews would read from the Land the possi- bility of elevating the human mind above ...
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... god in a golden calf . Already we are caught up in the text's iron- ic tone , in its distinction between the enlightened view of Moses , high on the mountain , and ... God , and the writing was the writing of God , graven upon Introduction 5.
... god in a golden calf . Already we are caught up in the text's iron- ic tone , in its distinction between the enlightened view of Moses , high on the mountain , and ... God , and the writing was the writing of God , graven upon Introduction 5.
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... God , graven upon the tables . And when Joshua heard the noise of the people as they shouted , he said unto Moses ... God's wrath by telling Him the story of the covenant . Our passage also sets in parallel Moses's breaking of the ...
... God , graven upon the tables . And when Joshua heard the noise of the people as they shouted , he said unto Moses ... God's wrath by telling Him the story of the covenant . Our passage also sets in parallel Moses's breaking of the ...
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... God's promise to make from Abraham's seed a great nation , as numerous as the stars and rooted in the specific soil of Canaan . In exchange , God is to be acknowledged as the only God of the creation . But surely this is not a bargain that ...
... God's promise to make from Abraham's seed a great nation , as numerous as the stars and rooted in the specific soil of Canaan . In exchange , God is to be acknowledged as the only God of the creation . But surely this is not a bargain that ...
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... gods becomes the supreme cultural value , but in the Land every valley and every high place unite as a reminder of ... God in Ezekiel 23 , the Hebrews " caused their sons , whom they bare unto me , to pass for them through the fire , to ...
... gods becomes the supreme cultural value , but in the Land every valley and every high place unite as a reminder of ... God in Ezekiel 23 , the Hebrews " caused their sons , whom they bare unto me , to pass for them through the fire , to ...
Contents
Land and Intellect | 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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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
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Page 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.