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.
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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.