Urban Imagination in Biblical Prophecy.
This volume brings together aspects of contemporary study of cultural geography and selected passages from prophetic texts of the Hebrew Bible/ Old Testament. The aim is to identify how the image of the city helps to construct meaning inside the biblical material. In order to carry out this task rel...
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London :
Bloomsbury Publishing,
2012.
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| Series: | Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament studies.
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Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part 1. DEFINING URBAN PSYCHO-GEOGRAPHY; Chapter 1. URBAN PSYCHO-GEOGRAPHIES; Chapter 2. THE PROPHET AS FLANEUR; Part 2. SPACE AND PLACE IN PROPHETIC URBAN IMAGINATION; Chapter 3. TEMPLE-SPACE AND URBAN IMAGINARY IN BIBLICAL PROPHECY; Chapter 4. A POETICS OF SACRED SPACE IN THE TEMPLE JOURNEYS OF EZEKIEL; Chapter 5. NARRATIVE SPACE AND RITUAL SPACE IN THE BOOK OF JOEL; Part 3. THREE URBAN IMAGINARIES; Chapter 6. THE GREAT CITY IN THE BOOK OF JONAH; Chapter 7. THE VISIONARY SPACE OF THE SIM-CITY IN ZECHARIAH 1-8.
- Chapter 8. DEATHSCAPES AND THE CITY IN THE MINOR PROPHETSPart 4. ANALYZING URBAN PROPHETIC IMAGINATION; Chapter 9. GEOGRAPHY AND VISION; Chapter 10. PROPHETIC CITIES; Bibliography; Index of References; Index of Authors.