Memory and the city in ancient Israel
Intro -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- 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 -- Stéphanie Anthonioz...
| Résumé: | Intro -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- 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 -- Stéphanie 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 -- Kåre 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 -- Index of Authors -- Index of Scripture. |
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| Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 1575067129 |