Memory and the City in Ancient Israel /

Memory and the City in Ancient Israel / / ed. by Ehud Ben Zvi, Diana V. Edelman.

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Ancient cities served as the actual, worldly landscape populated by "material" sites of memory. Some of these sites were personal and others were directly and intentionally involved in the shaping of a collective social memory, such as palaces, temples, inscriptions, walls, and gates. Many...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn State University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
MitwirkendeR:
Amit, Yairah,
Anthonioz, Stéphanie,
Berge, Kåre,
Edelman, Diana,
Ghantous, Hadi,
Gudme, Anne Katrine,
Guillaume, Philippe,
Hobson, Russell,
Holloway, Steven W.,
Landy, Francis,
Pioske, Daniel,
Sals, Ulrike,
Sulzbach, Carla,
Vermeulen, Karolien,
Walsh, Carey,
Zvi, Ehud Ben,
HerausgeberIn:
Ben Zvi, Ehud,
Edelman, Diana V.,
Place / Publishing House:University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2021]
©2014
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (350 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Abbreviations
  • Part 1 Opening the Gates
  • An Introduction and Invitation to Join the Conversation about Cities and Memory
  • Cities of Glory and Cities of Pride: Concepts, Gender, and Images of Cities in Mesopotamia and in Ancient Israel
  • Part 2 Crossing the Gates and Entering into the City (of Memory): Memories of Urban Places and Spaces
  • Testing Entry: The Social Functions of City-Gates in Biblical Memory
  • Inside-Outside: Domestic Living Space in Biblical Memory
  • Threshing Floors and Cities
  • Palaces as Sites of Memory and Their Impact on the Construction of an Elite "Hybrid" (Local-Global) Cultural Identity in Persian-Period Literature
  • City Gardens and Parks in Biblical Social Memory
  • In Defense of the City: Memories of Water in the Persian Period
  • Cisterns and Wells in Biblical Memory
  • Part 3 Individual Cities and Social Memory
  • Exploring Jerusalem as a Site of Memory in the Late Persian and Early Hellenistic Periods
  • The Memory of Samaria in the Books of Kings
  • How to Slander the Memory of Shechem
  • Mizpah and the Possibilities of Forgetting
  • Dislocating Jerusalem's Memory with Tyre
  • Nineveh as Meme in Persian Period Yehud
  • "Babylon" Forever, or How To Divinize What You Want To Damn
  • Building Castles on the Shifting Sands of Memory: From Dystopian to Utopian Views of Jerusalem in the Persian Period
  • Index of Authors
  • Index of Scripture

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