Every city shall be forsaken : urbanism and prophecy in ancient Israel and the Near East /: urbanism and prophecy in ancient Israel and the Near East. (©2001)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Lester L. Grabbe and Robert D. Haak.
• Other Names: Grabbe, Lester L; Haak, Robert D (Robert Donel), 1949-; Society of Biblical Literature., Prophetic Texts and their Ancient Contexts Group.
• 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.
• Publisher Details: Sheffield, England : Sheffield Academic Press
• Publication Date: 2001
• Copyright Date: 2001
• Extent: 1 online resource (226 pages)
• Subjects: 224.06 E93; Cities and towns -- Biblical teaching; Cities and towns, Ancient -- Middle East; Urbanization -- Middle East; Villes -- Enseignement biblique; Villes antiques -- Moyen-Orient; Urbanisation -- Moyen-Orient; RELIGION -- Biblical Studies -- Prophets; Antiquities; Cities and towns, Ancient; Cities and towns -- Biblical teaching; Urbanization; Steden; Oude Testament; Profetieën; Middle East -- Antiquities; Moyen-Orient -- Antiquités; Middle East; Electronic books; Criticism, interpretation, etc; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780567455987
• Related ISBNs: 056745598X; 9781841272023; 1841272027; 1841272132; 9781841272139
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.; Note: Print version record.
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