Crossing Borders between the Domestic and the Wild (eBook, ePUB)

Space, Fauna, and Flora
Redaktion: Boda, Mark J.; Rom-Shiloni, Dalit

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The present volume searches for different biblical perceptions of the wild, paying particular attention to the significance of fluid boundaries between the domestic and the wild, and to the options of crossing borders between them. Drawing on space, fauna, and flora, scholars investigate the ways biblical authors present the wild and the domestic and their interactions. In its six chapters and two responses, Hebrew Bible scholars, an archaeobotanist, an archaeologist, a geographer, and iconographers join forces to discuss the wild and its portrayals in biblical literature.The discussions bring to light the entire spectrum of real, imagined, metaphorized, and conceptualized forms of the wild that appear in biblical sources, as also in the material culture and agriculture of ancient Israel, and to some extent observe the great gap between biblical observations and modern studies of geography and of mapping that marks the distinctions between "the wilderness" and "the sown." The book is the first written product presented on two consecutive years (2019, 2020) at the SBL Annual Meetings in the Section: "Nature Imagery and Conceptions of Nature in the Bible."

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Januar 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780567696380
• Artikelnr.: 69744740

Autorenporträt

Dalit Rom-Shiloni is Professor of Biblical Studies at Tel-Aviv University, Israel. Mark J. Boda is Professor of Old Testament at McMaster Divinity College, Canada.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures List of Tables DNI Bible Supplements
Introduction List of Abbreviations Introduction - Mark J. Boda and Dalit Rom-Shiloni Chapter 1: 'It's a Jungle in Here': Wild Animals
Plants and Places in the Book of Amos -Alexander Coe Stewart
LeTourneau University
USA Chapter 2: Outside the Walls: The Portrayal of Wild Animals in the Hebrew Bible -Dorit Pomerantz
Tel-Aviv University
Israel Chapter 3: Flora and Fauna in the Metaphorical Landscapes in the Song of Songs - Martien Halvorson-Taylor
University of Virginia
USA Chapter 4: Wildscapes
Landscapes and Specialized Land Management: the Impact of the Assyrian Rule over Land Exploitation in the Kingdom Of Judah - Daffna Langgut and Yuval Gadot
Tel-Aviv University
Israel Chapter 5: The Wilderness and The Sown in the Land of Israel: Historical Mapping
the Human Footprint
and Remote Sensing - Noam Levin
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Israel Chapter 6: Spatial Language of the Wild : Ya'ar
Midbar
And Sadeh - Dalit Rom-Shiloni
Tel-Aviv University
Israel Chapter 7: Nature and Critical Spatiality: a Response to Crossing Borders Between the Domestic and the Wild - Jon L. Berquist
University of Redlands
USA Chapter 8: Beyond the Nature-Culture Divide -Anselm Hagedorn
University of Osnabruck
Germany Index of Authors Index of References