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Literature and Theology 2004 18(2):153-168; doi:10.1093/litthe/18.2.153
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Wanderings in the Desert: From the Exodus to the English Patient+

David Jasper

Theology & Religious Studies, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ D.Jasper{at}arts.gl.ac.uk

From the desert has grown a vast and varied literature, from the Bible to contemporary fiction and poetry. Underpinning this literature is a theological wisdom that is barely heard and is forgotten at our peril. Recent political and military activities in the deserts of the Middle East have radically obscured that wisdom. This essay seeks to give it voice and assert again its necessary claims.

+ This essay was first presented in April 2003 as the 2003 Ida Cordelia Beam Lecture in the University of Iowa, Iowa City. I thank Professor David E. Klemm of the Department of Religious Studies of the University of Iowa for all his help and advice. It forms an earlier version of the Postscript in the author's forthcoming book The Sacred Desert (Blackwell, 2004).


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