Memory and the city in ancient Israel
Part 1. Opening the gates : an introduction and invitation to join the conversation about cities and memory / Ehud Ben Zvi -- Cities of glory and cities of pride : concepts, gender and images of cities in Mesopotamia and in ancient Israel / Stephanie Anthonioz -- Part 2. Crossing the gates and enter...
| Summary: | Part 1. Opening the gates : an introduction and invitation to join the conversation about cities and memory / Ehud Ben Zvi -- Cities of glory and cities of pride : concepts, gender and images of cities in Mesopotamia and in ancient Israel / Stephanie Anthonioz -- Part 2. Crossing the gates and entering into the city (of memory) memories of urban places and spaces testing entry : the social functions of city-gates in Biblical memory / Carey Walsh -- Inside-outside : domestic living space in Biblical memory / Anne Katrine Gudme -- Threshing floors and cities / Francis Landy -- Palaces as sites of memory and their impact on the construction of an elite "hybrid" (local-global) cultural identity in Persian period literature / Kare Berge -- City gardens and parks in Biblical social memory / Diana Edelman -- In defense of the city : memories of water in the Persian period / Karolien Vermeulen -- Cisterns and wells in Biblical memory / Hadi Ghantous and Diana Edelman -- Part 3. Individual cities and social memory : exploring Jerusalem as a site of memory in the late Persian and early Hellenistic period / Ehud Ben Zvi -- The memory of Samaria in the Books of Kings / Russell Hobson -- How to slander the memory of Shechem / Yairah Amit -- Mizpah and the possibilities of forgetting / Daniel Pioske -- Dislocating Jerusalem's memory with Tyre / Philippe Guillaume -- Nineveh as meme in Persian period Yehud / Steven W. Holloway -- "Babylon" forever, or, How to divinize what you want to damn / Ulrike Sals -- Building castles on the shifting sands of memory : from dystopian to utopian views of Jerusalem in the Persian period / Carla Sulzbach. |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed |
| ISBN: | 1575067129 |