'Every city shall be forsaken'
Subtitle: urbanism and prophecy in ancient Israel and the Near East
By: edited by Lester L. Grabbe and Robert D. Haak.
Contributors: Grabbe, Lester L.; Haak, Robert D. 1949-.; Society of Biblical Literature. Prophetic Texts and their Ancient Contexts Group.
Series: Journal for the study of the Old Testament -- 330
Publisher: Sheffield Academic Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Sheffield, Eng
Language: eng
Number of pages: 226
Subjects: Bible. -- O.T. -- Prophets -- Criticism, interpretation, etc.; Bible. -- O.T. -- Criticism, interpretation, etc.; Cities and towns -- Biblical teaching.; Cities and towns, Ancient -- Middle East.; Urbanization -- Middle East.; Middle East -- Antiquities.
Notes: "The present volume arises out of the work of the Prophetic Texts and their Ancient Contexts Group, a Society of Biblical Literature Group ... "--Preface.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Introduction and overview / Lester L. Grabbe; title: Cityscape to landscape: the 'back to nature' theme in Isaiah 1-35 / Joseph Blenkinsopp; title: City of chaos, city of stone, city of flesh: urbanscapes in prophetic discourses / Robert P. Carroll; title: Proximity to the central Davidic citadel and the greater and lesser prophets / Robert B. Coote; title: This land is my land: on nature as property in the Book of Ezekiel / Julie Galambush; title: Sup-urbs or only hyp-urbs?: prophets and populations in ancient Israel and socio-historical method / Lester L. Grabbe; title: The savage made civilized: an examination of Ezekiel 16.8 / S. Tamar Kamionkowski; title: Reconstructing Haggai's Jerusalem: demographic and sociological considerations and the search for an adequate methodological point of departure / John Kessler; title: The sociology of preindustrial cities / Ben D. Nefzger; title: City as lofty as heaven: Arbela and other cities in neo-Assyrian prophecy / Martti Nissinen; title: Jerusalem: an example of war in a walled city (Isaiah 3-4) / John D.W. Watts.