TY  - BOOK
AU  - Pardes,Ilana
TI  - The biography of ancient Israel: national narratives in the Bible 
T2  - Contraversions
SN  - 9780520929722
AV  - BS1225.5 .P37 2000eb
U1  - 296.3/1172 21
PY  - 2000///
CY  - Berkeley
PB  - University of California Press
KW  - Bible
KW  - Pentateuch
KW  - Historiography
KW  - History of Biblical events
KW  - A.T
KW  - Pentateuque
KW  - Historiographie
KW  - Histoire des événements bibliques
KW  - fast
KW  - Bibel
KW  - Altes Testament
KW  - gnd
KW  - Bible as literature
KW  - Jewish nationalism
KW  - Bible (Littérature)
KW  - Nationalisme juif
KW  - 11.42 history of Old Testament times
KW  - bcl
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - Judaism
KW  - Theology
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Christianity
KW  - General
KW  - Erzähltechnik
KW  - Oude Testament
KW  - gtt
KW  - Oudheid
KW  - Geschiedschrijving
KW  - Natie
KW  - Palestina
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-194) and index; Acknowledgments; Chapter One: Introduction: Split Conception; Chapter Two: Imagining the Birth of a Nation; Chapter Three: Suckling in the Wilderness: The Absent Mother; Chapter Four: At the Foot of Mount Sinai: National Rites of Initiation; Chapter Five: The Spies in the Land of the Giants: Restless Youth; Chapter Six: Crossing the Threshold: In the Plains of Moab; Chapter Seven :Epilogue: Mount Nebo; Notes; Bibliography; Index
N2  - The nation--particularly in Exodus and Numbers--is not an abstract concept but rather a grand character whose history is fleshed out with remarkable literary power. In her innovative exploration of national imagination in the Bible, Pardes highlights the textual manifestations of the metaphor, the many anthropomorphisms by which a collective character named "Israel" springs to life
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