The novel alludes to the hopes for redemption in the stories of the Jewish tradition: the journey into the promised land, the coming of the Messiah, the renewal of the covenant between God and his chosen people.

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This covenant fulfilled the two great demands of the agricultural order: land and paternally certain offspring.

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