Portraying the Land : : Hebrew Maps of the Land of Israel from Rashi to the Early 20th Century / / Rehav Rubin.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2018 Part 1
• VerfasserIn: Rubin, Rehav,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2018]; Magnes Press, , [2018]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (XXV, 326 p.)

The book presents and discusses a large corpus of Jewish maps of the Holy Land that were drawn by Jewish scholars from the 11th to the 20th century, and thus fills a significant lacuna both in the history of cartography and in Jewish studies. The maps depict the biblical borders of the Holy Land, th...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Preface
• List of the Maps Presented in the Book
• Introduction
• 1. Rashi and His Maps
• 2. Following in Rashi’s Footsteps
• 3. Between Jewish and Christian Maps: The Sixteenth-Century Map of the Israelites’ Peregrinations from Mantua
• 4. Following in the Footsteps of Christian Cartographers
• 5. The Debut of the Tribal Allotments on the Traditional Hebrew Map
• 6. Cartographic Tableaux of the Holy Places
• 7. From Tradition to Modernity—the Hebrew Map between the Nineteenth Century and Early Twentieth Century
• Conclusion
• Cartographic Material
• Bibliography
• Index