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Israel, the Impossible Land (Paperback, Second)
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Israel, the Impossible Land (Paperback, Second)
Series: Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture
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What has the land of Israel meant for the Jewish imagination? This
book provides a lively and readable answer, covering Biblical times
to the present. Its aim is to pierce the mystery of the images of
Israel, to grasp their meaning and function, to trace their origins
and history, and to resituate in historical terms the fertile
mythology that has peopled and continues to people the Jewish
imagination, interposing a screen between a people and their land.
Describing the real, however, is not sufficient to disqualify the
myths. The authors believe, with the famous French historian Pierre
Vidal-Naquet, that: "Things are not so simple. Myth is not opposed
to the real as the false to the true; myth accompanies the real."
Today, Israel is an undeniable fact and no longer has to legitimize
its existence. It is in the midst of living through the crises of
adulthood. The authors simply want to reconstitute and trace the
genealogies of these contemporary crises. Only upon a clear
understanding of this present and this past can a future be
constructed.
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