Omer-Sherman, Ranen.

Israel in exile : Jewish writing and the desert / Ranen Omer-Sherman. - Urbana : University of Illinois Press, (c)2006. - 1 online resource

Includes bibliographies 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.



9780252092022 9781283044066

2019718269


Bible.--Old Testament--Criticism, interpretation, etc.


Wilderness areas in literature.
Israeli literature--History and criticism.
Jewish literature--History and criticism.
Identity (Philosophical concept) in literature.


Electronic Books.

PJ5012 / .I873 2006