Glory and Agony: Isaac's Sacrifice and National Narrative by Yael S. Feldman

Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture

Glory and Agony: Isaac's Sacrifice and National Narrative

Yael S. Feldman

440 pages hardcover 2010

2 editions

nonfiction history religion
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Glory and Agony is the first history of the shifting attitudes toward national sacrifice in Hebrew culture over the last century. Its point of departure is Zionism's obsessive preoccupation with its haunting "primal scene" of sacrifice, the near-s...

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