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.
Summary
Examines how the ethical tension between the clashing Mosaic and Davidic paradigms of the desert reverberates in secular Jewish literature and produces literary rewards. This book argues that the ancient encounter with the desert acquires an urgency in response to the crisis brought about by national identities and territorial conflicts.
