AJS Review
Volume 28, Number 1 • November 2004

Recreating the Canon:
The Biblical Presence in Modern Hebrew Literature and Culture
 
Nehama Aschensay, Guest Editor
Jay Harris, Editor


Jay Harris
Preface
 
Nehama Aschkenasy
Introduction: Recreating the Canon
 
Anita Shapira
The Bible and Israeli Identity
 
Gershon Shaked
Modern Midrash: The Biblical Canon and Modern Literature
 
Glenda Abramson
Israeli Drama and the Bible: Kings on Stage
 
Yael S. Feldman
“A People That Dwells Alone”? Toward Subversion of the Fathers’ Tongue in Israeli Women’s Fiction
 
Sidra DeKoven Ezrahi
Sentient Dogs, Liberates Rams, and Talking Asses: Agnon’s Biblical Zoo or Rereading Tmol shilshom
 
Nehama Aschkenasy
“And a Small Boy Leading Them”: The Child and the Biblical Landscape in Agnon, Oz, and Appelfeld
 
Malka Shaked
The Figure of Moses in Modern Hebrew Poetry
 
Chaya Shacham
Jew, Zionist, Hebrew, or Israeli? Transformations in the Identity of Jacob in the Novels of Benjamin Tammuz and Meir Shalev

Avraham Balban
Biblical Allusions in Modern and Postmodern Hebrew Literature
 
A.B. Yehoshua
From Myth to History
 
Erratum