Ancient Zionism: The Biblical Origins of the National Idea

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Simon and Schuster, Jun 15, 2010 - Religion - 277 pages
In this unusual and provocative book, Victor Erlich uncovers the origins of the national idea in the Hebrew Bible. Through a series of sensitive and original readings of well-known biblical episodes, Erlich argues that ancient Zionism was not an ideological construct but rather a unique marriage of literary imagination and ethnic pride.
 

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David in Zion
103
Ritual in the Land
131
Acknowledgments
271
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Page 4 - And when the people saw that Moses delayed to come down out of the mount, the people gathered themselves together unto Aaron, and said unto him, Up, make us gods, which shall go before us ; for as for this Moses, the man that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we wot not what is become of him.

About the author (2010)

Avi Erlich was formerly a professor of English at the City University of New York.

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