Cities Through the Looking Glass
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Cities Through the Looking Glass

Essays on the History and Archaeology of Biblical Urbanism

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  2. English
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eBook - PDF

Cities Through the Looking Glass

Essays on the History and Archaeology of Biblical Urbanism

About this book

The essays in this book originated as papers presented at the Conference on Urbanism in the Biblical World that took place on October 28ā€“30, 2003, at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. This conference was part of the annual series of the Clifton Batchelder Conference for Biblical Archaeology and the Bethsaida Excavations Project.

The conference was structured so that text scholars and material-culture scholars were able to interact and influence one another. This interdisciplinary approach created a unique, productive atmosphere where scholars who come from different disciplines were able to share and exchange ideas in ways that seldom happen in our increasingly specialized academic world. Thus, scholars from three major disciplinesā€”Greek philosophy, biblical studies, and archaeologyā€”produced lectures and papers on urbanism in the ancient world that reflect multihued perspectives that draw on the specialties of each contributor.

Few conferences on urbanism engage in an interdisciplinary approach, and few deal with the questions raised in this book; even fewer are published and see the light of day. In this volume, we are pleased to be able to share a fine collection of essays from the conference with the larger community of people interested in the ancient world.

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Information

Publisher
Eisenbrauns
Year
2008
Print ISBN
9781575061429
eBook ISBN
9781575065878
Topic
History
Subtopic
Ancient History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. COVER Front
  2. Copyright Page
  3. Chapter 1; Introduction
  4. Chapter 2: Landscape of Shadows:The Image of City in the Hebrew Bible
  5. Chapter 3: Gospel Cities:Real, Imagined, and Avoided
  6. Chapter 4: Urbanism in Galilee:A Study of Kinneret, Hazor,Dan, and Tzer in the Iron Age
  7. Chapter 5: Text and the City
  8. Chapter 6: Urbanism in Galilee:A Study of Kinneret, Hazor,Dan, and Tzer in the Iron Age
  9. Chapter 7: The Fortified City of Bethsaida:The Case of an Iron Age Capital City
  10. Chapter 8: Jerusalem between the Hasmoneans and Herod the Great
  11. Index