Desert in the Promised Land by Yael Zerubavel PAPERBACK 9781503607590

Desert in the Promised Land\nby Yael Zerubavel\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Yael Zerubavel\nTitle: Desert in the Promised Land\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Social and cultural history\nPublisher: Stanford University Press\nPublication year: 2018\nISBN-13: 9781503607590\nISBN-10: 1503607593\nRRP: \u00A327.99\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\n\nAt 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 barre.