Memory and the City in Ancient Israel

Published by Penn State University Press 2014

Memory and the City in Ancient Israel

Edited by: Diana V. Edelman and Ehud Ben Zvi

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781575067124

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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 cities were also sites of social memory in a very different way. Like Babylon, Nineveh, or Jerusalem, they served as ciphers that activated and communicated various mnemonic worlds as they integrated multiple images, remembered events, and provided a variety of meanings in diverse ancient communities.

Memory and the City in Ancient Israel contributes to the study of social memory in ancient Israel in the late Persian and early Hellenistic periods by exploring “the city,” both urban spaces and urban centers. It opens with a study that compares basic conceptualizing tendencies of cities in Mesopotamia with their counterparts in ancient Israel. Its essays then explore memories of gates, domestic spaces, threshing floors, palaces, city gardens and parks, natural and “domesticated” water in urban settings, cisterns, and wells. Finally, the studies turn to particular cities of memory in ancient Israel: Jerusalem, Samaria, Shechem, Mizpah, Tyre, Nineveh, and Babylon. The volume, which emerged from meetings of the European Association of Biblical Studies, includes the work of Stéphanie Anthonioz, Yairah Amit, Ehud Ben Zvi, KÃ¥re Berge, Diana Edelman, Hadi Ghantous, Anne Katrine Gudme, Philippe Guillaume, Russell Hobson, Steven W. Holloway, Francis Landy, Daniel Pioske, Ulrike Sals, Carla Sulzbach, Karolien Vermeulen, and Carey Walsh.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
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Abbreviations Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Part 1 Opening the Gates
An Introduction and Invitation to Join the Conversation about Cities and Memory Ehud Ben Zvi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Cities of Glory and Cities of Pride: Concepts, Gender, and Images of Cities in Mesopotamia and in Ancient Israel Stéphanie Anthonioz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	21
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 Carey Walsh Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	43
Inside-Outside: Domestic Living Space in Biblical Memory Anne Katrine Gudme Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	61
Threshing Floors and Cities Francis Landy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	79
Palaces as Sites of Memory and Their Impact on the Construction of an Elite “Hybrid” (Local-Global) Cultural Identity in Persian-Period Literature Kåre Berge Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	99
City Gardens and Parks in Biblical Social Memory Diana Edelman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	115
In Defense of the City: Memories of Water in the Persian Period Karolien Vermeulen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	157
Cisterns and Wells in Biblical Memory Hadi Ghantous and Diana Edelman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	177
Part 3 Individual Cities and Social Memory
Exploring Jerusalem as a Site of Memory in the Late Persian and Early Hellenistic Periods Ehud Ben Zvi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	197
The Memory of Samaria in the Books of Kings Russell Hobson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	219
How to Slander the Memory of Shechem Yairah Amit Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	231
Mizpah and the Possibilities of Forgetting Daniel Pioske Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	245
Dislocating Jerusalem’s Memory with Tyre Philippe Guillaume Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	257
Nineveh as Meme in Persian Period Yehud Steven W. Holloway Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	267
“Babylon” Forever, or How To Divinize What You Want To Damn Ulrike Sals Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	293
Building Castles on the Shifting Sands of Memory: From Dystopian to Utopian Views of Jerusalem in the Persian Period Carla Sulzbach Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	309
Index of Authors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	321
Index of Scripture Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	328

Language: English
Publisher: Penn State University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 350

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Published: October 31, 2014
ISBN: 9781575067124