Urban Imagination in Biblical Prophecy

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Urban Imagination in Biblical Prophecy

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This volume brings together aspects of contemporary study of cultural geography and selected passages from prophetic texts of the Hebrew Bible/ Old Testament. The aim is to identify how the image of the city helps to construct meaning inside the biblical material. In order to carry out this task relevant textual narratives are analysed and then read from the viewpoint of space, place and urban studies. This latter category includes the works of Lefebvre, Bachelard, Soja, Massey, Amin and Thrift and Pile, among others. A major finding is that urban imagination is a tool by which the texts manage the experience of political and social events in a time of radical change.

Table of Contents

Introduction
SECTION A: Defining Urban Psycho-geography
1. Urban Psycho-geographies
2. The prophet as Flaneur
SECTION B: Space and Place in Prophetic Urban Imagination
3. Temple-space and Urban Imaginary in Biblical Prophecy
4. A Poetics of Sacred Space in Ezekiel's Temple-City
5. Narrative Space and Ritual Space in the Book of Joel
SECTION C: Urban Imaginaries
6. The Great City in the Book of Jonah
7. The Visionary Space of the Sim-City in Zechariah 1-8
8. Deathscapes and the City in the Minor Prophets
SECTION D: Analysing Urban Prophetic Imagination
9. Geography and Vision
10. Prophetic Cities
Bibliography
Indices

Product details

Published 05 Jul 2012
Format Hardback
Edition 1st
Extent 272
ISBN 9780567111418
Imprint T&T Clark
Dimensions Not specified
Series The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Author

Mary E. Mills

Mary Mills is Visiting Professor in Biblical Studi…

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