Genealogies. Promised land -- "In the beginning" ambiguity -- Heritage deferred -- Exile and the desert -- Memory of an initial expropriation -- Dismembered land -- Sedentary people, nomadic God -- If I forget thee, 0 Jerusalem... -- Holy land -- New horizons -- Partial reappropriation -- Center and the periphery -- Living without the temple -- "Deterritorialized" Judaism? -- Legal land -- Holy land, holy people -- Land of dreams -- Other times : the land's middle ages? -- Stars and climates -- Heart of the world -- Divine land -- Land as metaphor -- Taste of paradise --Nearby lands, distant lands -- Exiled land -- Land and liturgy -- Land and the law : Rabbinic hermeneutical exercises -- Duty of Aliyah or the duty of exile? -- Forbidden land -- Encounters with Palestine -- Voyagers and "geographers" -- Nostalgia -- Metamorphoses. Rediscovered land -- "Here" and "there" -- Christian rediscovery of Palestine -- Palestine revisited by the Jews -- Ancient land, new land(s) -- Recreated land -- To whom does the land belong? -- Cult of the land -- Symbolism of pioneering -- Myths to the rescue of the land -- Land of historians -- Negation of exile, negation of self -- Impossible land -- Culture of rootedness -- Interminable exile -- Return of the promised land -- Coming of post-Zionism -- Wandering Israeli.