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203 index Abraham, 3, 8, 11–12, 31, 38, 74, 136; Lekh-lekha (“get thee out” divine command), 142, 149, 154, 156; and modernist and contemporary literature , 41–42, 85, 172; in philosophy, 180n22 Admat kodesh (land of holiness), 33 Adorno, Theodor, 13, 37 Aharon (also Aaron), 46, 136 Aharoni, Yohanan, 190n8 Akedah (binding of Isaac), 42–43, 55, 69, 74, 112, 113, 136, 183n7, 183n8 Alcalay, Ammiel, 150, 152 Allen, Woody, 161 Almog, Oz, 3, 14, 25, 181n29; on Zionist pedagogy, 35, 79–80, 160, 187n17 Alter, Robert, 63, 157, 179n10, 188n1; on Kafka, 192n8 Amichai, Yehuda, 62–63, 126 Amit, Yaira, 190n7 Amnesty International, 116, 118, 120 Antigone, 41 Appelfeld, Aharon, 22 Arabs, 118; as absent, 71, 90, 187n22; Canaanite movement and, 177n2; Israeli cinema and, 18, 163, 181n24, 191n7; legal minority position in Israel, 184n17; linguistic territory of, 64, 191n5; literary culture of, 144; as Other, 18, 49, 53, 63, 85–89, 162; ruins of dwellings, 84–85, 86, 87, 90, 111, 187n18; as threat, 53, 65, 106, 185n5, 187n19; as vanquished , 67, 71, 86, 88, 111–13; in war, 89, 192n8; in Zionist pedagogy, 39. See also Bedouin; Palestinians Arava, x, xiii, 177n3. See also desert Arava Institute, 171 Arendt, Hannah, 131 Aschenasy, Nehama, 62, 64, 95, 186n8, 186n9 Attias, Jean-Christophe, 7, 33–34, 78, 191n5, 192n14 Auschwitz, 142, 146, 150, 158. See also Holocaust; post-Holocaust Auster, Paul, 26–27, 143, 157 Bachelard, Gaston, 2 Bailey, Clinton, 20–21 Balaban, Avraham, 22–23, 78, 185n4, 186n14, 187n18, 188n24; death-inlife motif, 189n12 Band, Arnold, 6, 179n10 Bataille, Georges, 144 Bedouin, 12, 19; in Bible and Talmud , 96–97, 98, 100, 190n8; grazing rights of, 169; hospitality of, 23; in Israeli culture, 20–21, 29, 159, 162, 163, 166, 168–69, 192n10; Israel ’s treatment of Negev and Sinai tribes, 20, 23, 169, 192n11; in modern Hebrew literature, 64, 83; and oral recitation, 10, 20–21; Orientalism and, 19–21, 28. See also Arabs Beer, Haim, 183n8 Beersheva, 169 Bellow, Saul, 72 Ben-Ari, Eyal, 162 Benbassa, Esther, 7, 33, 78, 191n5, 192n14 Ben-David, Orit, 163 Ben-Gurion, Aryeh, 43 Ben-Gurion, David, 47, 62, 68, 69, 09.203-210.Omer.indd203 12/8/053:06:48PM 204 Index 71, 160, 170, 171; greening of the Negev, 192n12; and Kibbutz Sdeh Boker, 170 Benvenisti, Meron, 3 Berger, Harry, 32, 54, 139–40, 179n7 Biale, David, 181n29 Bialik, Hayim Nahman, 13, 79, 188n1; “The Dead of the Desert,” 98–100, 122, 139; “Revealment and Concealment in Language,” 156–57 Bible: austerity in, 161; compared with other ancient representations of the desert, 10; desertification and pestilence in, 119; literary counterhistory and, 40, 45, 186n8; modern Negev and, 191n5; wilderness in, 30, 35, 103, 161. See also Deuteronomy ; Exodus; Jeremiah; Numbers; Psalms Bilu, Yoram, 108, 113, 162 Blake, William, 18–19, 129 Blanchot, Maurice, ix, 139, 144, 149, 156, 177n1 Bloom, Harold, 61 B’nai Jeshurun, 173 Borges, Jorge Luis, 29 Bowles, Paul, xiii, 17, 183n11 Boyarin, Daniel, 9 Boyarin, Jonathan, 85, 90, 181n29 Braverman, Avishai, 170 Brenner, Athalya, 36, 37, 184n12 Brenner, Rachel Feldhay, xi, 66, 179n8 Bridging the Rift Center, The, 171 Brubacher, Gordon, 30, 178n2 Brueggemann, Walter, x Burton, Richard, 19 Bukai, Rafi, and Avanti Popolo, 191n4 Butler, Judith, 45–46 Calvino, Italo, 60 Camus, Albert, 143 Canaanite movement, xi, 99; relations with Arabs of Palestine, 177n2 Carroll, B. Jill, 140–41, 190n5 Castel-Bloom, Orly, 163 Celan, Paul, 143 Char, René, 143 Chateaubriand, François-René de, 3 Chaver, Yael, 179n14 Childs, Craig, xii Christianity, 10, 132, 134, 141, 180n17 Cohen, Joseph, 7, 8, 22, 61 Cohen, Josh, 146, 150 Comins, Mike, 164, 177n4 Conrad, Joseph, 22, 89 Dathan, 96, 139, 140, 141, 155 Davidic tradition, political consolidation of order, x, 179n7 Dayan, Moshe, 47, 184n14 Derrida, Jacques, 144 desert: as absence or non-place, 3, 10, 13, 25, 89, 151, 175; anarchy and, 98–99, 139; antimaterialism of Bedouin, 20–21; antiroyalty and, 3; apocalyptic imagination, 11; archetypal landscape of protest, x, 97–100; belonging and, 9; biblical language and, 178n1; in Christianity , 10; consciousness and lucidity in, 63, 90–91, 95, 116, 137, 153, 155, 158, 161, 168, 180n15; death in, 98–100, 122, 128, 131, 139, 151, 167; desert guides and explorers, xvi, 19; as Diaspora or exile, 7, 11, 34, 53, 101–25; in Disney’s Aladdin , 181n27; dissolution of ego or identity in, 44; encountering the Other, 12–13, 152, 154, 162; escapism , 80...