{"product_id":"memory-and-the-city-in-ancient-israel-9781575063157","title":"Memory and the City in Ancient Israel","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAncient cities served as the actual, worldly landscape populated by “material” sites of memory. Some of these sites were personal and others were directly and intentionally involved in the shaping of a collective social memory, such as palaces, temples, inscriptions, walls, and gates. Many cities were also sites of social memory in a very different way. Like Babylon, Nineveh, or Jerusalem, they served as ciphers that activated and communicated various mnemonic worlds as they integrated multiple images, remembered events, and provided a variety of meanings in diverse ancient communities.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMemory and the City in Ancient Israel\u003c\/i\u003e contributes to the study of social memory in ancient Israel in the late Persian and early Hellenistic periods by exploring “the city,” both urban spaces and urban centers. It opens with a study that compares basic conceptualizing tendencies of cities in Mesopotamia with their counterparts in ancient Israel. Its essays then explore memories of gates, domestic spaces, threshing floors, palaces, city gardens and parks, natural and “domesticated” water in urban settings, cisterns, and wells. Finally, the studies turn to particular cities of memory in ancient Israel: Jerusalem, Samaria, Shechem, Mizpah, Tyre, Nineveh, and Babylon. The volume, which emerged from meetings of the European Association of Biblical Studies, includes the work of Stéphanie Anthonioz, Yairah Amit, Ehud Ben Zvi, KÃ¥re Berge, Diana Edelman, Hadi Ghantous, Anne Katrine Gudme, Philippe Guillaume, Russell Hobson, Steven W. Holloway, Francis Landy, Daniel Pioske, Ulrike Sals, Carla Sulzbach, Karolien Vermeulen, and Carey Walsh.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart 1: Opening the Gates—An Introduction and Invitation to Join the Conversation about Cities and Memory\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEhud Ben Zvi\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCities of Glory and Cities of Pride: Concepts, Gender, and Images of Cities in Mesopotamia and in Ancient Israel\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStéphanie Anthonioz\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart 2: Crossing the Gates and Entering into the City (of Memory): Memories of Urban Places and Spaces\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTesting Entry: The Social Functions of City-Gates in Biblical Memory\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCarey Walsh\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInside-Outside: Domestic Living Space in Biblical Memory\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnne Katrine Gudme\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThreshing Floors and Cities\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrancis Landy\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePalaces as Sites of Memory and Their Impact on the Construction of an Elite “Hybrid” (Local-Global) Cultural Identity in Persian-Period Literature\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKåre Berge\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCity Gardens and Parks in Biblical Social Memory\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDiana Edelman\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Defense of the City: Memories of Water in the Persian Period\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKarolien Vermeulen\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCisterns and Wells in Biblical Memory\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHadi Ghantous and Diana Edelman\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart 3: Individual Cities and Social Memory\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eExploring Jerusalem as a Site of Memory in the Late Persian and Early Hellenistic Periods\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEhud Ben Zvi\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Memory of Samaria in the Books of Kings\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRussell Hobson\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHow to Slander the Memory of Shechem\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYairah Amit\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMizpah and the Possibilities of Forgetting\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDaniel Pioske\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDislocating Jerusalem’s Memory with Tyre\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePhilippe Guillaume\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNineveh as Meme in Persian Period Yehud\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSteven W. Holloway\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Babylon” Forever, or How To Divinize What You Want To Damn\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUlrike Sals\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBuilding Castles on the Shifting Sands of Memory: From Dystopian to Utopian Views of Jerusalem in the Persian Period\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCarla Sulzbach\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIndex of Authors\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIndex of Scripture\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pennsylvania State University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53188736254295,"sku":"9781575063157","price":51.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/memory-and-the-city-in-ancient-israel-9781575063157","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}