TY - JOUR
T1 - Sentient Dogs, Liberated Rams, and Talking Asses
T2 - Agnon's Biblical Zoo
AU - Ezrahi, Sidra Dekoven
PY - 2004/4
Y1 - 2004/4
N2 - The conclusion of Tmol shilshom is as satisfying as the climax of a Wagnerian opera or a Cecil B. De Mille movie. There is human sacrifice and there are claps of thunder and torrents of rain and cosmic evidence of divine wrath expended and placated. Nor does the novel's melodramatic end fail to satisfy its hyberbolic beginning: Isaac Kumer the naif, whose inflated dream of Zion carried the seeds of its own destruction, is bitten by a mad dog and sacrificed on the altar of the most primitive version of Jewish theodicy.
AB - The conclusion of Tmol shilshom is as satisfying as the climax of a Wagnerian opera or a Cecil B. De Mille movie. There is human sacrifice and there are claps of thunder and torrents of rain and cosmic evidence of divine wrath expended and placated. Nor does the novel's melodramatic end fail to satisfy its hyberbolic beginning: Isaac Kumer the naif, whose inflated dream of Zion carried the seeds of its own destruction, is bitten by a mad dog and sacrificed on the altar of the most primitive version of Jewish theodicy.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85012522362&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1017/S0364009404000078
DO - 10.1017/S0364009404000078
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AN - SCOPUS:85012522362
SN - 0364-0094
VL - 28
SP - 105
EP - 136
JO - AJS Review
JF - AJS Review
IS - 1
ER -