Crossing Borders between the Domestic and the Wild

Space, Fauna, and Flora

Mark J. Boda, Dalit Rom-Shiloni, Mark J. Boda, Dalit Rom-Shiloni

• Publisher: T&T Clark
• Year: 2024
• Print ISBN:
  9780567696359
• eBook ISBN:
  9780567696380
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: Biblical Studies

The present volume searches for different biblical perceptions of the wild, paying particular attention to the significance of fluid boundaries between the domestic and the wild, and to the options of crossing borders between them. Drawing on space, fauna, and flora, scholars investigate the ways biblical authors present the wild and the domestic and their interactions. In its six chapters and two responses, Hebrew Bible scholars, an archaeobotanist, an archaeologist, a geographer, and iconographers join forces to discuss the wild and its portrayals in biblical literature.The discussions bring to light the entire spectrum of real, imagined, metaphorized, and conceptualized forms of the wild that appear in biblical sources, as also in the material culture and agriculture of ancient Israel, and to some extent observe the great gap between biblical observations and modern studies of geography and of mapping that marks the distinctions between "the wilderness" and "the sown." The book is the first written product presented on two consecutive years (2019, 2020) at the SBL Annual Meetings in the Section: "Nature Imagery and Conceptions of Nature in the Bible."

Table of contents

• Cover
• Halftitle Page
• Title Page
• Contents
• List of Figures
• List of Tables
• DNI Bible Supplements, Introduction
• List of Abbreviations
• Introduction
• Chapter 1 It’s A Jungle in Here: Wild Animals, Plants, and Places in the Book of Amos
• Chapter 2 Outside the Walls: The Portrayal of Wild Animals in the Hebrew Bible
• Chapter 3 Flora and Fauna in the Metaphorical Landscapes of the Song of Songs
• Chapter 4 Wildscapes, Landscapes, and Specialized Land Management: The Impact of the Assyrian Rule Over Land Exploitation in the Kingdom of Judah
• Chapter 5 The Wilderness and the Sown in the Land of Israel: Historical Mapping, The Human Footprint, and Remote Sensing
• Chapter 6 Spatial Language of the Wild: Yaʾar, Miḏbar, and Śāḏeh
• Chapter 7 Nature and Critical Spatiality: A Response
• Chapter 8 Beyond the Nature-Culture Divide: A Response
• Index of Authors
• Index of References
• Imprint