Desert in the Promised Land

by Yael Zerubavel

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1503607593
• ISBN13: 9781503607590
• Release Date: December 2018
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.0" x 8.8"