Desert in the Promised Land
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: Dec 25, 2018
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9781503606234
Description: "At once an ecological phenomenon and a cultural construction, the desert has varied associations within Zionist and Israeli culture. In the Judaic textual tradition, it evokes exile and punishment, yet is also a site for origin myths, the divine presence, and sanctity. Secular Zionism developed its own spin on the duality of the desert as the romantic site of Jews' biblical roots that inspired the Hebrew culture, and as the barren land outside the Jewish settlements in Palestine, featuring them as an oasis of order and technological progress within a symbolic desert"--back cover.
Notes: Source title: Desert in the Promised Land (Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture)