Constructions of space IV
Subtitle: further developments in examining ancient Israel's social space
By: edited by Mark K. George
Series: Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament studies -- 569; T & T Clark library of biblical studies; Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament studies -- 569.; T & T Clark library of biblical studies
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Published: 2013
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 201
ISBN-13: 9780567342836
Subjects: Space perception in the Bible; Bible; Congresses; Geography
Other titles: Constructions of space 4
Description: Critical studies and analyses of space are becoming increasingly common in scholarship, although it is not always clear how such studies proceed, what theoretical works inform them, or what are their potential benefits for biblical studies. This volume helps address those questions, by including the work of biblical scholars working in a range of historical periods and locations, from Deuteronomy's idealized spaces to the Qumran community on the shores of the Dead Sea. Each of the scholars in this volume is actively involved in the critical study of space, having presented work on this topic in regional, national, or international meetings of the Society of Biblical Literature. The essays included in this volume combine theoretical and interpretive concerns in the analysis of texts from the Hebrew Bible and the Dead Sea Scrolls. Scholars in Biblical Studies, Archaeology, Religious Studies, and Anthropology will find this to be a valuable resource for gaining new understandings of the critical study of space in antiquity
Notes: Selected conference papers.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-189) and indexes.

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Table of contents: title: Noah's architecture: the role of sacred space in ancient Near Eastern flood myths  -- Cory D. Crawford; title: Socio-spatial logic and the structure of the book of Numbers  -- Mark K. George -- Creating space through imagination and action: space and the body in Deuteronomy 6:4-9 / -- Michaela Geiger; title: Remembered space in biblical narrative  -- Victor H. Matthews; title: Wicked witches of the west: construction of space and gender in Jezreel  -- Ann Jeffers; title: Place of the past: spatial construction in Jeremiah 1-24  -- Barrie Bowman; title: Every green tree and the streets of Jerusalem: counter construction of gendered sacred space in the book of Jeremiah  -- Steed Vernyl Davidson; title: From watchtower to holy temple: reading the book of Habakkuk as a spatial journey  -- Gert T.M. Prinsloo; title: Em-bodied desert and other sectarian spaces in the Dead Sea Scrolls -- Alison Schofield.