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'Every city shall be forsaken'

urbanism and prophecy in ancient Israel and the Near East

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An edition of 'Every city shall be forsaken' (2001)

'Every city shall be forsaken'

urbanism and prophecy in ancient Israel and the Near East

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Sheffield Academic Press
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English
Pages
226

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Urbanization Bible Biblical teaching Cities and towns Criticism, interpretation Antiquities Ancient Cities and towns Villes antiques Urbanisation Critique, interprétation Stadt Villes Antiquités Steden Altes Testament Prophetie Enseignement biblique Profetieën Oude Testament Bible, prophecies History Apocryphal books Bibliography Research Prophecies

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'Every city shall be forsaken': urbanism and prophecy in ancient Israel and the Near East
2001, Sheffield Academic Press
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'Every City Shall Be Forsaken': Urbanism and Prophecy in Ancient Israel and the Near East (JSOT Supplement)
December 2001, Sheffield Academic Press
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Table of Contents

Introduction and overview / Lester L. Grabbe
Cityscape to landscape: the 'back to nature' theme in Isaiah 1-35 / Joseph Blenkinsopp
City of chaos, city of stone, city of flesh: urbanscapes in prophetic discourses / Robert P. Carroll
Proximity to the central Davidic citadel and the greater and lesser prophets / Robert B. Coote
This land is my land: on nature as property in the Book of Ezekiel / Julie Galambush
Sup-urbs or only hyp-urbs?: prophets and populations in ancient Israel and socio-historical method / Lester L. Grabbe
The savage made civilized: an examination of Ezekiel 16.8 / S. Tamar Kamionkowski
Reconstructing Haggai's Jerusalem: demographic and sociological considerations and the search for an adequate methodological point of departure / John Kessler
The sociology of preindustrial cities / Ben D. Nefzger
City as lofty as heaven: Arbela and other cities in neo-Assyrian prophecy / Martti Nissinen
Jerusalem: an example of war in a walled city (Isaiah 3-4) / John D.W. Watts.

Edition Notes

"The present volume arises out of the work of the Prophetic Texts and their Ancient Contexts Group, a Society of Biblical Literature Group ... "--Preface.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

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Sheffield, Eng
Series
Journal for the study of the Old Testament -- 330

Classifications

Library of Congress
BS680.C5 E94 2001, DS111 .E84 2001, Z7772.K1 D58 2001, BS1700 D58 2001

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Pagination
226 p. ;
Number of pages
226

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL18346165M
ISBN 10
1841272027
LCCN
2001431836
OCLC/WorldCat
48064296, 48194311
LibraryThing
366256
Goodreads
823409

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OL18855878W

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