“We Are the Homeowners”: Sacred Textuality and the Social Structure of Jewish Religious Nationalism in Israel and the West Bank

This article offers an anthropological look at sacred textuality by exploring the social and theological structure of Jewish religious nationalism in Israel West Bank. It argues that study texts serves as a medium through which Zionists articulate what it means to return ancestral homeland. demonstrates how these is implicated cultivation two different structural modes relate ideas homecoming. On one side, homecoming rests revolutionary force intellectual insight; on other, expressed mystical mysterious prophecy. In broader sense, this critiques reticence anthropologists engage seriously with are textual can be so much part everyday experiences individuals living text-based societies.