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River Jordan : the mythology of a dividing line /
As the site of several miracles in the Jewish and Christian traditions, the Jordan is one of the world's holiest rivers. It is also the major political and symbolic border contested by Israelis and Palestinians. Combining biblical and folkloric studies with historical geography, Rachel Havreloc...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
2011.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter One: The Two Maps of Israel's Land; Chapter Two: Israel and Moab as Nation and Anti- nation; Chapter Three: Two Camps: Ancient Israel Between Homeland and Diaspora; Chapter Four: The Book of Joshua and the Ideology of Homeland; Chapter Five: The Other Side; Chapter Six: Crossing Over: Prophetic Succession at the Jordan; Chapter Seven: Dipping In: Baptism and the State of the Body; Chapter Eight: Two More Maps of Israel's Land; Chapter Nine: My Home Is Over Jordan: River as Border in Israeli and PalestinianNational Mythology.