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'Every city shall be forsaken' : urbanism and prophecy in ancient Israel and the Near East

Title
'Every city shall be forsaken' : urbanism and prophecy in ancient Israel and the Near East / edited by Lester L. Grabbe and Robert D. Haak.
Publication
Sheffield, Eng. : Sheffield Academic Press, [2001], ©2001.

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Additional Authors
  • Grabbe, Lester L.
  • Haak, Robert D. (Robert Donel), 1949-
  • Society of Biblical Literature. Prophetic Texts and their Ancient Contexts Group.
Description
226 pages; 24 cm.
Series Statement
Journal for the study of the Old Testament. Supplement series ; 330
Uniform Title
Journal for the study of the Old Testament. Supplement series ; 330.
Subject
  • Bible. > Criticism, interpretation, etc
  • Cities and towns > Biblical teaching
  • Cities and towns, Ancient > Middle East
  • Urbanization > Middle East
  • Middle East > Antiquities
Note
  • "The present volume arises out of the work of the Prophetic Texts and their Ancient Contexts Group, a Society of Biblical Literature Group ... "--Preface.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents
Introduction and overview / Lester L. Grabbe -- Cityscape to landscape: the 'back to nature' theme in Isaiah 1-35 / Joseph Blenkinsopp -- City of chaos, city of stone, city of flesh: urbanscapes in prophetic discourses / Robert P. Carroll -- Proximity to the central Davidic citadel and the greater and lesser prophets / Robert B. Coote -- This land is my land: on nature as property in the Book of Ezekiel / Julie Galambush -- Sup-urbs or only hyp-urbs?: prophets and populations in ancient Israel and socio-historical method / Lester L. Grabbe -- The savage made civilized: an examination of Ezekiel 16.8 / S. Tamar Kamionkowski -- Reconstructing Haggai's Jerusalem: demographic and sociological considerations and the search for an adequate methodological point of departure / John Kessler -- The sociology of preindustrial cities / Ben D. Nefzger -- City as lofty as heaven: Arbela and other cities in neo-Assyrian prophecy / Martti Nissinen -- Jerusalem: an example of war in a walled city (Isaiah 3-4) / John D.W. Watts.
ISBN
1841272027
OCLC
  • ocm48064296
  • SCSB-4194306
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries