Portraying the Land : Hebrew Maps of the Land of Israel from Rashi to the Early 20th Century /
The book presents and discusses a large corpus of Jewish maps of the Holy Land that were drawn by Jewish scholars from the 11th to the 20th century, and thus fills a significant lacuna both in the history of cartography and in Jewish studies. The maps depict the biblical borders of the Holy Land, th...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berlin ; Boston :
De Gruyter,
[2018]
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- List of the Maps Presented in the Book
- Introduction
- 1. Rashi and His Maps
- 2. Following in Rashi's Footsteps
- 3. Between Jewish and Christian Maps: The Sixteenth-Century Map of the Israelites' Peregrinations from Mantua
- 4. Following in the Footsteps of Christian Cartographers
- 5. The Debut of the Tribal Allotments on the Traditional Hebrew Map
- 6. Cartographic Tableaux of the Holy Places
- 7. From Tradition to Modernity--the Hebrew Map between the Nineteenth Century and Early Twentieth Century
- Conclusion
- Cartographic Material
- Bibliography
- Index.