Constructions of Space V

Introduction: Place, Space, and Identity in the Ancient Mediterranean World - Christl M. Maier and Gert T. M. Prinsloo
Part I: Prospectives, Perspectives and Methods
1. Space and Identity in the Ancient Mediterranean World: Theory and Practice with Reference to the Book of Jonah, Gert T. M. Prinsloo
2. Fiction and Space in Deuteronomy,
Michaela Geiger, Philipps University Marburg, Germany
3. Critical Spatial Theory 2.0,
Matthew Sleeman, Oak Hill College, UK

Part II: Sacred Space and the Formation of Identity
4. The Implied Transcendence of Physical and Ideological Borders and Boundaries in Psalm 47, Jo-Mari Schaeder, University of Pretoria, South Africa
5. Jerusalem, the Holy City: The Meaning of the City of Jerusalem in the Books of Ezra-Nehemiah, Maria Haeusl, University of Dresden, Germany
6. Whose Mother? Whose Space? Jerusalem in Third Isaiah,
Christl M. Maier, University of Marburg, Germany
7. The Menalyaning of the City of Jerusalem in the Book of Tobit: An Asis of the Jerusalem Hymn in Tobit 13.8-18
Johanna Rautenberg, University of Dresden, Germany

Part III: Place, Space, Identity: Theory and Practice
9. From the Walls of Uruk: Reflections on Space in the Gilgamesh Epic
Gerda de Villiers, University of Pretoria, South Africa
10. Family as Lived Space: An Interdisciplinary and Intertextual Reading of Genesis 34,
Reineth and Gert Prinsloo, University of Pretoria, South Africa
11. (Re-)Siting Space and Identity of Gibeonites and Japanese Americans
Johnny Miles, Texas Christian University, USA
12. Narrative Space and the Construction of Meaning in the Book of Joel
Mary Mills, Liverpool Hope University, UK
13. Unfocused Narrative Space in Tobit 1.1-2.14
Ronald van der Berg
14. From Urban Nightmares to Dream Cities: Revealing the Apocalyptic Cityscape
Carla Sulzbach, McGill University, USA

Index