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Glory and agony : Isaac's sacrifice and national narrative / Yael S. Feldman.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Feldman, Yael S., 1941-
- Series:
- Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture.
- Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Zionism in literature.
- Israeli literature--20th century--History and criticism.
- Israeli literature.
- Jewish literature--History and criticism.
- Jewish literature.
- Sacrifice--Judaism.
- Sacrifice.
- Human sacrifice in literature.
- Isaac (Biblical patriarch)--Sacrifice.
- Isaac.
- Isaac (Biblical patriarch)--In literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (442 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, c2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Glory and Agony is the first history of the shifting attitudes toward national sacrifice, violence, and victimage in Hebrew culture over the last century.
- Contents:
- Introduction: sacrifice for gods and country: practice and theory
- Martyr, victim, sacrifice, warrior
- Re-inventing the Aqedah as a heroic trope
- Interlude: the land of Isaac
- Binder or slaughterer?: the rise and fall of Abraham
- Virgin martyrs, 1966: a story of dream and darkness
- Sacrificial victims?: the Isaac generation, 1967-1973
- Manic Abrahams vs. women's peace, 1975-1995
- Afterword : a state of exception: a view from the present.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [319]-404) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780804777360
- 0804777365
- OCLC:
- 713026463
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