Constructions of Space V

Gert T.M. Prinsloo is Professor of Semitic Languages in the Department of Ancient Languages at the University of Pretoria, South Africa. Christl M. Maier is Professor of Old Testament at Philipps-University Marburg, Germany.

• Introduction: Place, Space, and Identity in the Ancient Mediterranean World - Christl M. Maier and Gert T. M. PrinslooPart I: Prospectives, Perspectives and Methods1. Space and Identity in the Ancient Mediterranean World: Theory and Practice with Reference to the Book of Jonah, Gert T. M. Prinsloo2. Fiction and Space in Deuteronomy, Michaela Geiger3. Critical Spatial Theory 2.0, Matthew SleemanPart II: Sacred Space and the Formation of Identity4. The Implied Transcendence of Physical and Ideological Borders and Boundaries in Psalm 47, Jo-Mari Schäder5. Jerusalem, the Holy City: The Meaning of the City of Jerusalem in the Books of Ezra-Nehemiah, Maria Häusl6. Whose Mother? Whose Space? Jerusalem in Third Isaiah, Christl M. Maier7. The Menalyaning of the City of Jerusalem in the Book of Tobit: An Asis of the Jerusalem Hymn in Tobit 13.8-18, Johanna RautenbergPart III: Place, Space, Identity: Theory and Practice9. From the Walls of Uruk: Reflections on Space in the Gilgamesh Epic, Gerda de Villiers10. Family as Lived Space: An Interdisciplinary and Intertextual Reading of Genesis 34, Reineth and Gert Prinsloo11. (Re-)Siting Space and Identity of Gibeonites and Japanese Americans, Johnny Miles12. Narrative Space and the Construction of Meaning in the Book of Joel, Mary Mills13. Unfocused Narrative Space in Tobit 1.1-2.14, Ronald van der Berg14. From Urban Nightmares to Dream Cities: Revealing the Apocalyptic Cityscape, Carla Sulzbach

To my mind, the most important contribution of this book is the dialogue, never fully explicit, among its authors on the ways in which consideration of space and place might enhance our understanding of the Hebrew Bible, the world in which it originated, and the worlds to which it gave rise... The authors of this volume have...helped advance the conversation.