Holy places in biblical and extrabiblical traditions
Subtitle: proceedings of the Bonn-Leiden-Oxford Colloquium on Biblical Studies
By: Jochen Flebbe (ed.).
Series: Bonner biblische Beiträge -- Band 179; V&R Academic; V & R academic; Bonner biblische Beiträge (Bodenheim am Rhein, Germany) -- Bd. 179.
Publisher: V&R unipress; University Press
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Göttingen; Bonn
Language: eng; ger
Number of pages: 194
ISBN-13: 9783847105916
Subjects: Congresses; Criticism, interpretation; Sacred space; Heilige plaatsen; Bible
Description: "Religion is beyond doubt inseparably connected with questions about holy locations and places. These places gain their meaning not by their physical determination, but by human construction. The contributions of this volume try to shape this phenomenon for selected texts of the Old and New Testament and of Philo of Alexandria. In doing so, they inevitably shed light on central theological issues of these texts. Geographically speaking the Arabaic Peninsula and the Greek Isles, but also Mesopotamia are brought in as outmost areas, which contain Jerusalem in the middle, but could also contain places such as mountain, temple, or even a bed of a praying man"--
Notes: International conference proceedings.

1 German, 9 English contributions.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Ein Berg in Arabien (Gal 4,25). Sinai; title: Gottesberg; title: Horeb; title: Sinai: the origin of holiness and Revelation in Exodus, Deuteronomy, the Temple Scroll, and Jubilees; title: Construction of space for personified Zion. Space and figure in Isa 60; title: Imitation, subversion, and transformation of the Mesopotamian MīsPî ritual in the Book of Ezekiel's depiction of holy space; title: The Psalms: places for remembering; title: "God is in the midst of the city". Temple and city in Ps 46; title: "And they saw the place where the God of Israel stood." Exodus 24:10 LXX in the writings of Philo of Alexandria; title: Access prohibited? Spacing the Kingdom of God in Synoptic traditions; title: "God does not dwell in houses made by human hands." Cult and holy places in the Acts of the Apostles; title: Patmos as holy place in the Apocalypse.