Constructions of Space V: Place, Space and Identity in the Ancient Mediterranean World

✍ Scribed by Gert T.M. Prinsloo; Christl M. Maier (editors)

Publisher: Bloomsbury T&T Clark
Year: 2013
Tongue: English
Leaves: 283
Series: The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

This is a collection of papers given at SBL International Meetings 2009-2011, which investigate the inherent spatiality of human existence. The contributors discuss ancient Mediterranean texts and societies from a decidedly spatial perspective, debating over such issues as narratological space, critical spatiality, sociological theories on space, space and identity, space and body. The volume consists of three parts and commences with three studies focusing on theoretical approaches towards spatial analysis and application of the theory to specific Old and New Testament texts. The essays in the second part examine the sacred space and the formation of identity, with particular attention to Jerusalem and the temple seen as sacred space and the lived experience of authors describing this space in various ways. The third part discusses the spatial theory and its application to a variety of texts ranging from the Epic of Gilgamesh to the New Testament.

✦ Table of Contents

CONTENTS
Abbreviations
List of Contributors
INTRODUCTION: PLACE, SPACE AND IDENTITY IN THE ANCIENT MEDITERRANEAN WORLD -- Christl M. Maier and Gert T. M. Prinsloo
Part I. PROSPECTIVES, PERSPECTIVES AND METHODS
PLACE, SPACE AND IDENTITY IN THE ANCIENT MEDITERRANEAN WORLD: THEORY AND PRACTICE WITH REFERENCE TO THE BOOK OF JONAH -- Gert T. M. Prinsloo
FICTION AND SPACE IN DEUTERONOMY -- Michaela Geiger
CRITICAL SPATIAL THEORY 2.0 -- Matthew Sleeman
Part II. SACRED SPACE AND THE FORMATION OF IDENTITY
THE IMPLIED TRANSCENDENCE OF PHYSICAL AND IDEOLOGICAL BORDERS AND BOUNDARIES IN PSALM 47 -- Jo-Marí Schäder
JERUSALEM, THE HOLY CITY: THE MEANING OF THE CITY OF JERUSALEM IN THE BOOKS OF EZRA–NEHEMIAH --
Maria Häusl
WHOSE MOTHER? WHOSE SPACE? JERUSALEM IN THIRD ISAIAH -- Christl M. Maier
THE MEANING OF THE CITY OF JERUSALEM IN THE BOOK OF TOBIT: AN ANALYSIS OF THE JERUSALEM HYMN IN TOBIT 13:8–18 -- Johanna Rautenberg
Part III. PLACE, SPACE, IDENTITY: THEORY AND PRACTICE
FROM THE WALLS OF URUK: REFLECTIONS ON SPACE IN THE GILGAMESH EPIC -- Gerda de Villiers
FAMILY AS LIVED SPACE: AN INTERDISCIPLINARY AND INTERTEXTUAL READING OF GENESIS 34 -- Reineth (C. E.) Prinsloo and Gert T. M. Prinsloo
(RE-)SITING SPACE AND IDENTITY OF GIBEONITES AND JAPANESE AMERICANS -- Johnny Miles
NARRATIVE SPACE AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF MEANING IN THE BOOK OF JOEL -- Mary Mills
UNFOCUSED NARRATIVE SPACE IN TOBIT 1:1–2:14 -- Ronald van der Bergh
FROM URBAN NIGHTMARES TO DREAM CITIES: REVEALING THE APOCALYPTIC CITYSCAPE -- Carla Sulzbach
Place, Space and Identity in the Ancient Mediterranean World: A Spatial Bibliography
Index of References
Index of Authors

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