Abstract
The tension between divine law, the law of nature, the law of the state and the law of the individual (conscience) is of course an enduring one in world literature since at least the moment that Sophocles's Antigone first eruped on stage. With increasing emphasis, Israeli literature has evolved as a counter-narrative corpus focused on the plight of the individual, caught between a dream of justice and the often draconian consequences of state law. In Shulamith Hareven's Thirst: The Desert Trilogy, a gender-critical struggle against canonical interpretations of the original text leads toward a questioning of the stakes of ancient patriarchy as well as contemporary uses of a unified national identity. Hareven's insistence that the sacred text serve the moral dilemmas of the present, offers a compelling meditation on the traumas of a rebuilt Jerusalem.
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