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

Urbanism in ancient society has now become an important topic for both classical and ancient Near Eastern scholars. Equally, the question of prophecy as social institution and literary corpus has been increasingly problematized. The essays in this volume bring together these crucial aspects of moder...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: Society of Biblical Literature. Prophetic Texts and their Ancient Contexts Group
Otros Autores: Grabbe, Lester L., Haak, Robert D. (Robert Donel), 1949-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Sheffield, England : Sheffield Academic Press, ©2001.
Colección:Journal for the study of the Old Testament. Supplement series ; 330.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.