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Glory and Agony

Isaac's Sacrifice and National Narrative [Hardback]

by Yael Feldman

    • Author

      Yael Feldman

    • Book Format

      Hardback

    • Publisher

      Stanford University Press

    • Published

      September 2010

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    "Glory and Agony" is the first history of the shifting attitudes toward national sacrifice in Hebrew culture over the last century. Its point of departure is Zionism's obsessive preoccupation with its haunting "primal scene" of sacrifice, the near-sacrifice of Isaac, as evidenced in wide-ranging sources from the domains of literature, art, psychology, philosophy, and politics. By placing these sources in conversation with twentieth-century thinking on human sacrifice, violence, and martyrdom, this study draws a complex picture that provides multiple, sometimes contradictory insights into the genesis and gender of national sacrifice.
    Extending back over two millennia, this study unearths retellings of biblical and classical narratives of sacrifice, both enacted and aborted, voluntary and violent, male and female--Isaac, Ishmael, Jephthah's daughter, Iphigenia, Jesus. "Glory and Agony" traces the birth of national sacrifice out of the ruins of religious martyrdom, exposing the sacred underside of Western secularism in Israel as elsewhere.

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    • Author

      Yael Feldman

    • Book Format

      Hardback

    • Publisher

      Stanford University Press

    • Published

      September 2010

    • Weight

      341g

    • Page Count

      440

    • Dimensions

      153 x 232 x 13 mm

    • ISBN

      9780804759021

    • ISBN-10

      0804759022

    • Eden Code

      3576594

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    • Author/Creator: Yael Feldman

    • ISBN: 9780804759021

    • Publisher: Stanford University Press

    • Release Date: September 2010

    • Weight: 341g

    • Dimensions: 153 x 232 x 13 mm

    • Eden Code: 3576594


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