Symbolic houses in Judaism
Subtitle: how objects and metaphors construct hybrid places of belonging
By: by Mimi Levy Lipis
Series: Ashgate studies in architecture
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Surrey, UK, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781409421047
Other titles: How objects and metaphors construct hybrid places of belonging
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Situating the house. Architectural foundations; title: influences from gender studies; title: Strategies of analysis; title: The ritual houses. The iconography of the house in ritual objects; title: The local; title: The land of Israel, Jerusalem, and the temple; title: The Hebrew Bible; title: God's presence; title: Hybrid spaces; title: The house as a metaphor. The book as house; title: The community as house; title: The covenant as house; title: Women, building, and God; title: Spaces and places in the Sukkah. Approaching the Sukkah; title: Textual constructions; title: Spatial manifestations; title: Of gardens and cities; title: Beyond architecture.