
Constructions of Space II
The Biblical City and Other Imagined Spaces
T.& T.Clark Ltd (Publisher)
Published on 15. December 2008
Book
Hardback
176 pages
978-0-567-02708-5 (ISBN)
Description
The Constructions of Ancient Space Seminar ran as a joint project of the AAR and SBL from 2000-2005, the only cross-society venture of its time. For the first time in the development of biblical studies, participants in the seminar attempted to foreground and critically analyze space with the same theoretical nuance that biblical scholars have traditionally devoted to history.
This volume, first, collects five papers focused on biblical cities, and especially Jerusalem. The female personification of Zion allows for, among other things, a specifically feminist slant on spatiality theory. Whereas these essays begin with cities as material realities, the second part of the volume offers two essays that begin with the imagined spaces of apocalyptic literature, though these two are shown to have deep connection to actual lived space. The final essay moves outside the biblical canon to examine real and imagined space in Pure Land Buddhism.
This volume, first, collects five papers focused on biblical cities, and especially Jerusalem. The female personification of Zion allows for, among other things, a specifically feminist slant on spatiality theory. Whereas these essays begin with cities as material realities, the second part of the volume offers two essays that begin with the imagined spaces of apocalyptic literature, though these two are shown to have deep connection to actual lived space. The final essay moves outside the biblical canon to examine real and imagined space in Pure Land Buddhism.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Edinburgh
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
20
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
482 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-567-02708-5 (9780567027085)
DOI
CBID131385
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Persons
Jon Berquist is senior academic editor at Westminster John Knox Press. Claudia V. Camp is Professor of Religion at Texas Christian University, USA and was on the steering committee of the Seminar. She is currently co-general editor of the LHBOTS series, as well as the author or editor of 4 books and numerous articles.
Content
Introduction: Claudia V. Camp
Part I: Space and the Biblical City
Michael Patrick O'Connor, "The Biblical Notion of the City"
Christl Maier, "Daughter Zion as a Gendered Space in the Book of Isaiah"
Christl Maier, "Body Space as Public Space: Jerusalem's Wounded Body in Lamentations"
Jon L. Berquist, "Constructing the City of David: Critical Spatiality and Jerusalem as Capital"
Susan Graham, "Justinian and the Politics of Space"
Part II: Biblical and Other Spaces
Kathryn Muller Lopez, "Standing Before the Throne of God: Critical Spatiality in the Judgment of the Wicked Apocalyptic Literature"
Tina Pippin, "Ideology of Apocalyptic Spaces"
William E. Deal, "Simulating Pure Land Space: The Hyperreality of Japanese Buddhist Paradise"
Part I: Space and the Biblical City
Michael Patrick O'Connor, "The Biblical Notion of the City"
Christl Maier, "Daughter Zion as a Gendered Space in the Book of Isaiah"
Christl Maier, "Body Space as Public Space: Jerusalem's Wounded Body in Lamentations"
Jon L. Berquist, "Constructing the City of David: Critical Spatiality and Jerusalem as Capital"
Susan Graham, "Justinian and the Politics of Space"
Part II: Biblical and Other Spaces
Kathryn Muller Lopez, "Standing Before the Throne of God: Critical Spatiality in the Judgment of the Wicked Apocalyptic Literature"
Tina Pippin, "Ideology of Apocalyptic Spaces"
William E. Deal, "Simulating Pure Land Space: The Hyperreality of Japanese Buddhist Paradise"