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Yael Feldman
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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.
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