Preface
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Section 1: Setting the Scene
1. Introduction: A City Perspective – James K. Aitken, University of Cambridge, UK
2. Reflections on the Meaning(s) of 'City' in the Hebrew Bible – Alison Gray, University of Cambridge, UK
3. The City as Metropolis – Hugh Pyper, University of Sheffield, UK
Section 2: Perspectives from Critical Theory and Cultural Geography
4. Mapping Narrative Complexity: Textual Geography, Literary Studies, and the City in the Hebrew Bible -- Bradford A. Anderson, Dublin City University, Ireland
5. 'A Land with Fine Large Cities': Mapping the Landscapes of Deuteronomy Hilary F. Marlow, University of Cambridge, UK
6. City as Labyrinth: the Song of Songs and the 'Urban Uncanny' – Christopher Meredith, St Mary's University Twickenham, UK
7. Wasteland and Pastoral Idyll as Images of the Biblical City – Mary Mills, Liverpool Hope University, UK
8. Urban Planning according to Ezekiel: The Shape of the Restored Jerusalem -- Deborah Rooke, University of Oxford, UK
Section 3: Literary and Exegetical Perspectives
9. City Parody as a Literary Trope in Biblical Texts – Carla Sulzbach, Independent Scholar
10. Contested Eponymy: Cain, Enoch, and the Cities of Genesis 1-11 – Robert Gordon, University of Cambridge, UK
11. 'Therefore We Will Not Fear'? The Psalms of Zion in Psycho-Linguistic Perspective – Rebecca Watson, University of Cambridge, UK
12. Among the Ruins of a Walled City: Reflections on War and Peace in Ecclesiastes 12.1-7 – Stephen J. Bennett, Nyack College, USA
Index