Jerusalem as Contested Space in Ezekiel
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Jerusalem as Contested Space in Ezekiel

Exilic Encounters with Emotions, Space, and Identity Politics

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Jerusalem as Contested Space in Ezekiel

Exilic Encounters with Emotions, Space, and Identity Politics

About this book

Natalie Mylonas uses Ezekiel 16 as a case study in order to reveal the critical relationship between space, emotion, and identity politics in the Hebrew Bible. Drawing on interdisciplinary research that emphasises how space and emotions are inextricably linked in human experience, Mylonas explores the portrayal of Yhwh's wife, Jerusalem, in Ezekiel 16 as a personified city who feels emotion. She foregrounds purity and gender issues, as well as debates on emotions in the Hebrew Bible, emphasising that spatiality is a key component of how these issues are conceptualised in ancient Israel. This book argues that the power struggle between Jerusalem and Yhwh in Ezekiel 16 is a struggle over the contested space of Jerusalem's body and the city space. Jerusalem's emotions are in a dynamic relationship with the spaces in the text – they are signified by these spaces, shift as the constitution of the spaces shifts, and are shaped by Jerusalem's use of space. Her desire, pride, and shamelessness are communicated spatially through her use of city space, while her representation as disgusting is underscored by her "uncontrollable" female body. Mylonas concludes by showing how Ezekiel's vision of the new Jerusalem in Ezekiel 40-48 re-establishes sacred space through the erasure of the feminine city metaphor coupled with strict boundary policing, which is a far cry from the assault on Jerusalem's boundaries described in Ezekiel 16.

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Information

Publisher
T&T Clark
Year
2023
Print ISBN
9780567706423
eBook ISBN
9780567706430
Edition
1
Topic
Theology & Religion
Subtopic
Biblical Studies

Table of contents

  1. COVER
  2. TITLE
  3. COPYRIGHT PAGE
  4. CONTENTS
  5. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  6. ABBREVIATIONS
  7. CHAPTER 1 - EZEKIEL, DISPLACEMENT, AND TRAUMA
  8. CHAPTER 2 - APPROACHING EMOTIONS
  9. CHAPTER 3 - THE LINK BETWEEN EMOTIONS, SPACE, AND GENDER
  10. CHAPTER 4 - ABANDONED IN AN OPEN FIELD (EZEKIEL 16:1-7)
  11. CHAPTER 5 - DISGUST, PURITY, AND THE BODY
  12. CHAPTER 6 - JERUSALEM'S CHANGING BODY: FROM INFANT TO REPRODUCTIVE FEMALE (EZEKIEL 16:2-14)
  13. CHAPTER 7 - JERUSALEM'S TRANSFORMATION OF CITY SPACE (EZEKIEL 16:15-34)
  14. CHAPTER 8 - THE DESTRUCTION OF JERUSALEM'S SPACES AND BODY (EZEKIEL 16:35-43)
  15. CHAPTER 9 - SACRED SPACE RE-ESTABLISHED: BOUNDARY POLICING AND THE DISAPPEARANCE OF THE FEMININE (EZEKIEL 40-48)
  16. CHAPTER 10 - CONCLUSION
  17. BIBLIOGRAPHY
  18. INDEX OF REFERENCES
  19. INDEX OF AUTHORS
  20. INDEX OF SUBJECTS