... Fogel (“Prophets on the Speed Train”) are among the many Israeli critics who reviewed the novel in the Israeli press and in literary magazines. 8 In an interview with Racheli Rif , Burstein talks about his attachment to hummus: “I became a vegetarian at age thirteen. I stopped eating meat...

...: Stanford University Press. 2002. 346 p. Ian Balfour’s expansive and thorough discussion of a prophetic strain running through Romantic poetry is a work to be welcomed. It complements with numerous other writers and contexts the typically exclusive focus on Blake as the sole representative of a...

... prophetic strain running through Romantic poetry is a work to be welcomed. It complements with numerous other writers and contexts the typically exclusive focus on Blake as the sole representative of a radical religious politics during the Romantic era. Moreover, Balfour’s important study deepens our...

... University of Oregon THE RHETORIC OF ROMANTIC PROPHECY. By Ian Balfour. Stanford: Stanford University Press. 2002. 346 p. Ian Balfour’s expansive and thorough discussion of a prophetic strain running through Romantic poetry is a work to be welcomed. It complements with numerous other writers...

...: Stanford University Press. 2002. 346 p. Ian Balfour’s expansive and thorough discussion of a prophetic strain running through Romantic poetry is a work to be welcomed. It complements with numerous other writers and contexts the typically exclusive focus on Blake as the sole representative of a...

... prophetic strain running through Romantic poetry is a work to be welcomed. It complements with numerous other writers and contexts the typically exclusive focus on Blake as the sole representative of a radical religious politics during the Romantic era. Moreover, Balfour’s important study deepens our...

... University of Oregon THE RHETORIC OF ROMANTIC PROPHECY. By Ian Balfour. Stanford: Stanford University Press. 2002. 346 p. Ian Balfour’s expansive and thorough discussion of a prophetic strain running through Romantic poetry is a work to be welcomed. It complements with numerous other writers...

... York: Doubleday, 1990 . Scholem, Gershom. “On Jonah and the Concept of Justice.” Critical Inquiry 25 (Winter 1999 ): 353 -62. Schwartz, Regina M. The Curse of Cain: The Violent Legacy of Monotheism . Chicago: Chicago University Press, 1997 . Sherrill, Rowland, A. The Prophetic...

... collective that is to be clothed in strength and splendor. Splendidly garbed as a laborer, he poeti- cally fulfills Isaiah’s prophetic exhortation, reviving in the holy tongue a long dor- mant land. Shlonsky’s well-known poetic persona emerges in the third stanza, precisely in the middle of the poem...

...] Miron, Dan. “ H. N. Bialik and the Prophetic Mode in Modern Hebrew Poetry .” B.G. Rudolph Lectures in Jewish Studies. Syracuse: Syracuse UP, 2000 . Mishani, Dror. There Is Something Absurd about the Whole Mizrahi Thing . Tel-Aviv: Am Oved, 2006 . [Hebrew] Morris, Benny. The Birth of the...

... point on. Moreover, Facima also experiences her father’s distance, silence, and complacency in the face of the cruelty of her stepmother and stepsisters. There is a Hadith, a saying of the Prophet Muhammad, that when a Muslim sees a wrong being committed (s)he should stop it with his/her hands; if...

... “Islamophilic,” and he emphasizes instead that they were all in different ways drawn to an idea of the prophet Mohammed as a reforming legislator who established a tolerant egalitarian republic. Invoking Derrida’s concept of the supplement, Garcia argues that Islamic republicanism was particularly...

... Fasti . Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1995 . Potter, David. Prophets and Emperors . Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1994 . Ramage, Nancy H., and Andrew Ramage. Roman Art: Romulus to Constantine . New York: Abrams, 1991 . Rawson, P.B. The Myth of Marsyas in the Roman Visual Arts...

... this essay, I offer possibly the most salient features of what Miraji might have hoped to achieve with “Saffo.” One is tucked into the word shāyad : perhaps, conjecture, surmise. Perhaps is the signature of prophecy, and our first encounter with tidbits from Sappho’s corpus is a prophetic scrap...

... story familiar from the Alexander Romance.4 In his Islamic manifestation as Iskandar Dhu-l-Qarnayn, Alexander is not only a world conqueror but also a Muslim prophet and something of a messianic fig- ure. The eastern Alexander romance also existed in the less familiar Southeast Asian languages of...

... Chapter of the Revelation, coming up with one year earlier. Indeed, Gordon Brotherston’s far-ranging Book of the Fourth World: Reading the Native Americas through Their Literatures and my own more modest Columbus and the Ends of the Earth: Europe’s Prophetic Rhetoric as Conquering Ideology, two...

... reviews / 365 ers considered here similarly distance themselves from the Islamic republicanism that they elsewhere invoke. In his introduction to Chronicle of the Cid (1808), for example, Southey presents the prophet Mohammed not as a republican but as an “impostor” and empire- builder, who...

... Broch’s later novels (119). The intensely teleological character of this argument is announced in the epigraph Am Anfang Prophet, am Ende Zauberer” (118) —​ for by the end of Sebald’s essay the prophet has been exposed as a mere shell from which the conjuror would inevitably emerge. As strident...

...LINDA KINTZ University of Oregon 2001 Barbash, Fred. “Market Guru Put Acolytes on a Wild Ride.” Washington Post 5 Mar. 2000 : H01 . Bethell, Tom. “The Prophet of Profits: George Gilder Extends His Seamless Web.” The American Spectator 9 Aug. 2000. 9 Aug. 2000 < http...

... Quran and the sayings of the prophet than with the Ptolemaic system that the new astronomy had discredited. Bākīkhānūf argues that the earlier Ptolemaic view is therefore less Islamic than the modern scientific Copernican view that he wholeheartedly adopted. He advances this argument on a basis that is...