Divine in Modern Hebrew Literature - Conceptions of the Divine

List of contents

Introduction 1. Fin-de-Siécle Jewish Writers on the God of Nature 2. Theomorphism and Modern Jewish Literature’s Search for the Divine: Brenner and Shlonsky as a Case Study 3. Uri Zvi in Front of God 4. Narrative and Providence in the Fiction of S. Y. Agnon 5. "And You Will Hand Me into the Hands of Man": God in the Antiwar PoetryofYehuda Amichai and Dahlia Ravikovitch Epilogue: Pantheism and Its Discontents

About the author

Neta Stahl is Associate Professor in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures and the director of the Stulman Program in Jewish Studies at Johns Hopkins University. She is the author of Other and Brother: The Figure of Jesus in the 20th-Century Jewish Literary Landscape (2013) and Drawings of the Heart: The Poetics of Yoel Hoffmann (2017), and the editor of Jesus Among the Jews (2012). Her articles appeared, among others, in Comparative Literature, Jewish Studies Quarterly, Religion & Literature, Prooftexts, and the Journal of Modern Jewish Studies.

Summary

Demonstrating the pervasive presence of God in modern Hebrew literature, this book explores the qualities that twentieth century Hebrew writers attributed to the divine, and examines their functions against the simplistic dichotomy between religious and secular literature.

Product details

• Authors: Neta Stahl, Neta (Johns Hopkins University Stahl, Stahl Neta
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2018
• EAN: 9781138918665
• ISBN: 978-1-138-91866-5
• No. of pages: 202
• Series: Routledge Jewish Studies Series; Routledge Jewish Studies Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies, LITERARY CRITICISM / Jewish, Jewish Studies, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Social groups: religious groups and communities