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Glory and agony Isaac's sacrifice and national narrative

Feldman, Yael S. 1941- (Author).

Summary: Glory and Agony is the first history of the shifting attitudes toward national sacrifice, violence, and victimage in Hebrew culture over the last century.

Record details

ISBN: 9780804777360 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 0804777365 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 9780804759021
ISBN: 0804759022
Physical Description: electronic resource
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1 online resource (xv, 421 p.) : ill.
Publisher: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, c2010.

Content descriptions

General Note:	Multi-User.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (p. [319]-404) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Introduction: sacrifice for gods and country: practice and theory -- Martyr, victim, sacrifice, warrior -- Re-inventing the Aqedah as a heroic trope -- Interlude: the land of Isaac -- Binder or slaughterer?: the rise and fall of Abraham -- Virgin martyrs, 1966: a story of dream and darkness -- Sacrificial victims?: the Isaac generation, 1967-1973 -- Manic Abrahams vs. women's peace, 1975-1995 -- Afterword : a state of exception: a view from the present.
Source of Description Note:	Description based on print version record.