Studies in Jewish Civilization Volume 11: "A Land Flowing With Milk an Honey" Visions of Israel from Biblical to Modern Times. Proceedings of the Eleventh Annual Symposium of the Klutznick Chair in Jewish Civilization-Harris Center for Judaic Studies, November 1 -2, 1998.

Greenspoon, Leonard J., Simkins, Ronald A., edited by.

ISBN 10: 1881871401 / ISBN 13: 9781881871408

Published by Creighton University Press distributed by University of Nebraska Press, Omaha, NE, 2001

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Octavo, paper covers, xviii, 317 pp., b/w illustrations Articles are "Another Jerusalem: Orientation to the Holy in a Dispersed Cosmos," Mary R. Huie-Jolly, "What Happened to the Milk and Honey? Changing Symbols of Abundance of the Land of Israel in Late Antiquity," Richard A. Freund, "'The Land in Which You Haver Lived': Inheritance of the Promised Land in Classical Islamic Exegesis, "Archaeology in the Service of Ideology in Israel," Rami Arav, "Contructing Jerusalem," Keith W. Whitelam, "Israeli Art Before and After Fifdty Years of Statehood: Between Pasts and Future," Ori Z. Soltes, "Between Fatherland and Holy Land: Israel as Refuge and Reminder in the Poetry of Nelly Sachs and Elsa Lasker-Schüler," Elisabeth Snyder Hook, "Imagineering Israel: (Re) Constructing History Through Travel Photographs," Rebekah Sobel, "Parlor Tours of the Holy Land: Fantast and Ideology in Stereographic Photos of Palestine," Burke O. Long, "Egypt in Israel: Reel Images Across the Border," Joel Gordon, "An Artist Looks at Zion: E.M. Lilien and His Changing Visions of Palestine," Elisabth Keil, "Between Orthodxy and Modernism: Hermann Strck's Influence on the Contenance and Soul of Zion," Michael Berkowitz, "British Millenarian Missionaries in Eretz Israel," Thomas A. Idinoppoulous, "The View from the Right: From Jabotinsky to Netanyahu," Colin Shindler.

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• Title: Studies in Jewish Civilization Volume 11: "A Land Flowing With Milk an Honey" Visions of Israel from Biblical to Modern Times. Proceedings of the Eleventh Annual Symposium of the Klutznick Chair in Jewish Civilization-Harris Center for Judaic Studies, November 1 -2, 1998.
• Publisher: Creighton University Press distributed by University of Nebraska Press, Omaha, NE
• Publication Date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1881871401
• ISBN 13: 9781881871408
• Binding: Softbound
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

"A Land Flowing with Milk and Honey" examines how the promised land of Israel has been seen and interpreted differently over the course of Jewish history by those who call it home and by the many other individuals and cultures it has affected. The first glimpse of the promised land was God's description to Moses of "a land flowing with milk and honey." Since that time, the land has been more than a geographical or political entity. Visions of Israel have proliferated—uniting, dividing, and inspiring individuals and societies for thousands of years.

The fourteen contributors to this volume draw upon a variety of scholarly disciplines to consider how and why Israel has been interpreted in so many different ways. Topics include the transplanting of the idea of Zion to a sacred mountain in New Zealand; the roles of archaeology and cartography in shaping perceptions of Israel; the understanding of classical Islamic followers; the multiple meanings of "milk and honey"; the vision of noted engraver and photographer E. M. Lilien; how the land inspired two German-born Jewish women poets; the current meaning of Israel to its political right; the distinct visions of Israeli sculptors and of artist Hermann Struck; images of Israel that appear in Egyptian films; the perceptions of first-time American Jewish tourists to Israel; old stereographic photo tours of the land; and the perspectives of British millenarian missionaries in nineteenth-century Palestine.

About the Author

Leonard J. Greenspoon holds the Klutznick Chair in Jewish Civilization at Creighton University.

Ronald A. Simkins is an associate professor of theology and director of the Center for the Study of Religion and Society at Creighton University.