Barren in the Promised Land
Barren in the Promised Land

Author: Elaine Tyler May

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13: 9780674061828

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Chronicling astonishing shifts in public attitudes toward reproduction, May reveals the intersection between public life and the most private part of our lives--sexuality, procreation, and family.

Are You Walking on Dry Ground?
Are You Walking on Dry Ground?

Author: Ina Rae Hudson

Publisher: Tate Publishing

Published: 2008-04

Total Pages: 108

ISBN-13: 1604624922

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Ina Rae Hudson explores these questions in Are You Walking on Dry Ground? Through a personal question and answer session, she researches the details of the Israelites' Promised Land. Follow their journey as they discover that God is enough and will faithfully fulfill his promise. Are you traveling your life journey with the same knowledge? Get reacquainted with the one who always provides in Are You Walking on Dry Ground?

Desert - The Promised Land
Desert - The Promised Land

Author: Anne de Graaf

Publisher: Scandinavia Publishing House

Published: 2015-01-26

Total Pages: 33

ISBN-13: 8771327533

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Volume 5 portrays the books of Numbers and Deuteronomy, as well as the first four chapters of Joshua. The stories, told in chronological order, cover the rest of the journey to Canaan, Moses' surrender of leadership to Joshua and crossing the River Jordan.

My Promised Land
My Promised Land

Author: Ari Shavit

Publisher: Random House

Published: 2013-11-19

Total Pages: 482

ISBN-13: 0812984641

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW AND ECONOMIST BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR “A deeply reported, deeply personal history of Zionism and Israel that does something few books even attempt: It balances the strength and weakness, the idealism and the brutality, the hope and the horror, that has always been at Zionism’s heart.”—Ezra Klein, The New York Times Winner of the Natan Book Award, the National Jewish Book Award, and the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award Ari Shavit’s riveting work, now updated with new material, draws on historical documents, interviews, and private diaries and letters, as well as his own family’s story, to create a narrative larger than the sum of its parts: both personal and of profound historical dimension. As he examines the complexities and contradictions of the Israeli condition, Shavit asks difficult but important questions: Why did Israel come to be? How did it come to be? Can it survive? Culminating with an analysis of the issues and threats that Israel is facing, My Promised Land uses the defining events of the past to shed new light on the present. Shavit’s analysis of Israeli history provides a landmark portrait of a small, vibrant country living on the edge, whose identity and presence play a crucial role in today’s global political landscape.

Desert in the Promised Land
Desert in the Promised Land

Author: Yael Zerubavel

Publisher: Stanford University Press

Published: 2018-12-25

Total Pages: 423

ISBN-13: 1503607607

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“A complex and fascinating portrait of Israel . . . .an engaging book that combines anthropology, culture, and history.” —Anita Shapira, author of Ben-Gurion: Father of Modern Israel At once an ecological phenomenon and a cultural construction, the desert has varied associations within Zionist and Israeli culture. In the Judaic textual tradition, it evokes exile and punishment, yet is also a site for origin myths, the divine presence, and sanctity. Secular Zionism developed its own spin on the duality of the desert as the romantic site of Jews’ biblical roots that inspired the Hebrew culture, and as the barren land outside the Jewish settlements in Palestine, featuring them as an oasis of order and technological progress within a symbolic desert. Yael Zerubavel tells the story of the desert from the early twentieth century to the present, shedding light on romantic-mythical associations, settlement and security concerns, environmental sympathies, and the commodifying tourist gaze. Drawing on literary narratives, educational texts, newspaper articles, tourist materials, films, popular songs, posters, photographs, and cartoons, Zerubavel reveals the complexities and contradictions that mark Israeli society’s semiotics of space in relation to the Middle East, and the central role of the “besieged island” trope in Israeli culture and politics.

The Promised Land
The Promised Land

Author: Susan Sperling Brock

Publisher: WestBow Press

Published: 2014-11-25

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 1490856196

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How do you persevere when life seems hopeless and you feel so helpless? Where does faith fit in? How do you find meaning and purpose in life when the most important people in your life are not there? How do you overcome years of depression? What can you do to be successful in marriage when only failure has been modeled before you? These questions and their answers are the starting points to healing from past damaging relationships and entering into a life of emotional strength and spiritual boldness. In the Old Testament, God called His people to a land that was filled with milk and honey. It was called the Promised Land. Similarly, He calls each believer today to a place of rest and abundant living. This book--made possible by combining decades of personal struggle, spiritual counseling, personal Bible study, and a psychology background--can be your pathway to the fullest and happiest days of your life as well.