Agnon's Moonstruck Lovers : The Song of Songs in Israeli Culture Hardback
by Ilana Pardes
Part of the Samuel and Althea Stroum Lectures in Jewish Studies series
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Agnon's Moonstruck Lovers explores the response of Israel’s Nobel laureate S.
Y. Agnon to the privileged position of the Song of Songs in Israeli culture.
Standing at a unique crossroads between religion and secularism, Agnon probes the paradoxes and ambiguities of the Zionist hermeneutic project.
In adopting the Song, Zionist interpreters sought to return to the erotic, pastoral landscapes of biblical times.
Their quest for a new, uplifting, secular literalism, however, could not efface the haunting impact of allegorical configurations of love.
With superb irony, Agnon's tales recast Israeli biblicism as a peculiar chapter within the ever-surprising history of biblical exegesis.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:216 pages, 13 illus.
- Publisher:University of Washington Press
- Publication Date:01/02/2014
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- ISBN:9780295993027
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:216 pages, 13 illus.
- Publisher:University of Washington Press
- Publication Date:01/02/2014
- Category:
- ISBN:9780295993027
