Portraying the Land: Hebrew Maps of the Land of Israel from Rashi to the Early 20th Century 9783110570656, 9783110564532, 9783110683202

Portraying the Land: Hebrew Maps of the Land of Israel from Rashi to the Early 20th Century 9783110570656, 9783110564532, 9783110683202

Co-publication with Magnes Press The book presents and discusses a large corpus of Jewish maps of the Holy Land that w

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Israel, the Impossible Land 9780804780469

What has the land of Israel meant for the Jewish imagination? This book provides a lively and readable answer, covering

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The Land of Canaan and the Destiny of Israel: Theologies of Territory in the Hebrew Bible 9781575066271

What part does the land of Canaan play in the biblical conception of “Israel”? To what extent does the religion promoted

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The Land of Canaan and the Destiny of Israel: Theologies of Territory in the Hebrew Bible (Siphrut: Literature and Theology of the Hebrew Scriptures) 9781575062020, 157506202X

What part does the land of Canaan play in the biblical conception of “Israel”? To what extent does the religion promoted

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To the Promised Land: A History of Zionist Thought from Its Origins to the Modern State of Israel 0571254233, 9780571254231

Zionism is one of the most misunderstood and controversial of all political doctrines. To the Promised Land illuminates

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Scriptural Geography: Portraying the Holy Land 9780755625147, 9781845118181

For nineteenth century scholars the Holy Land was not just a region of the globe - it was an idea, an intellectual and m

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Sport, Politics and Society in the Land of Israel 9781317967903

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Reconfiguring the Land of Israel: A Rabbinic Project 900469675X, 9789004696754

This book is about ways in which the land of Israel, the homeland of the most paradigmatic of all diasporas, was envisio

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In the Land of Israel: Essays 0547540779, 9780547540771

A snapshot of Israel and the West Bank in the 1980s, through the voices of its inhabitants, from the National Jewish Boo

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Twentieth Century Jews: Forging Identity in the Land of Promise and in the Promised Land 9781618110244

This extensively-researched collection of essays lucidly explores how members of the ever-beleaguered Jewish people grap

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