Table Of ContentLIBRARY OF HEBREW BIBLE/
OLD TESTAMENT STUDIES
569
Formerly Journal for the Study of the Old Testament Supplement Series
Editors
Claudia V. Camp, Texas Christian University
Andrew Mein, Westcott House, Cambridge
Founding Editors
David J. A. Clines, Philip R. Davies and David M. Gunn
Editorial Board
Alan Cooper, John Goldingay, Robert P. Gordon,
Norman K. Gottwald, James Harding, John Jarick, Carol Meyers,
Patrick D. Miller, Francesca Stavrakopoulou,
Daniel L. Smith-Christopher
CONSTRUCTIONS OF SPACE IV
Further Developments in Examining Ancient
Israel’s Social Space
edited by
Mark K. George
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CONTENTS
Abbreviations vii
List of Contributors ix
INTRODUCTION
Mark K. George xi
NOAH’S ARCHITECTURE: THE ROLE OF SACRED SPACE
IN ANCIENT NEAR EASTERN FLOOD MYTHS
Cory D. Crawford 1
SOCIO-SPATIAL LOGIC AND THE STRUCTURE
OF THE BOOK OF NUMBERS
Mark K. George 23
CREATING SPACE THROUGH IMAGINATION AND ACTION:
SPACE AND THE BODY IN DEUTERONOMY 6:4–9
Michaela Geiger 44
REMEMBERED SPACE IN BIBLICAL NARRATIVE
Victor H. Matthews 61
WICKED WITCHES OF THE WEST:
CONSTRUCTION OF SPACE AND GENDER IN JEZREEL
Ann Jeffers 76
THE PLACE OF THE PAST:
SPATIAL CONSTRUCTION IN JEREMIAH 1–24
Barrie Bowman 92
“EVERY GREEN TREE AND THE STREETS OF JERUSALEM”:
COUNTER CONSTRUCTIONS OF GENDERED SACRED SPACE
IN THE BOOK OF JEREMIAH
Steed Vernyl Davidson 111
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FROM WATCHTOWER TO HOLY TEMPLE:
READING THE BOOK OF HABAKKUK AS A SPATIAL JOURNEY
Gert T. M. Prinsloo 132
THE EM-BODIED DESERT AND OTHER SECTARIAN SPACES
IN THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS
Alison Scho(cid:191)eld 155
Bibliography 175
Index of References 190
Index of Authors 199
ABBREVIATIONS
AB Anchor Bible
ABD Anchor Bible Dictionary. Edited by D. N. Freedman. 6 vols. New
York, 1992
AOTC Abingdon Old Testament Commentaries
ATD Das Alte Testament Deutsch
BA Biblical Archaeologist
BAR Biblical Archaeology Review
BDB Brown, F., S. R. Driver, and C. A. Briggs. A Hebrew and English
Lexicon of the Old Testament. Oxford, 1907
BEATAJ Beiträge zur Erforschung des Alten Testaments und des antiken
Judentum
Bib Biblica
BibInt Biblical Interpretation
BTB Biblical Theology Bulletin
BWANT Beiträge zur Wissenschaft vom Alten und Neuen Testament
CBQ Catholic Biblical Quarterly
CC Continental Commentaries
CHANE Culture and History of the Ancient Near East
CSHJ Chicago Studies in the History of Judaism
CT Cuneiform Texts from Babylonian Tablets in the British Museum
CTA Corpus des tablettes en cunéiformes alphabétiques découvertes à
Ras Shamra-Ugarit de 1929 à 1939. Edited by A. Herdner. Mission
de Ras Shamra 10. Paris, 1963
CurBS Currents in Research: Biblical Studies
DJD Discoveries in the Judaean Desert
ErIsr Eretz-Israel
FAT Forschungen zum Alten Testament
FCB Feminist Companion to the Bible
FOTL Forms of the Old Testament Literature
FRLANT Forschungen zur Religion und Literatur des Alten und Neuen
Testaments
HS Hebrew Studies
HSM Harvard Semitic Monographs
HThKAT Herders Theologischer Kommentar zum Alten Testament
HTR Harvard Theological Review
HTS Harvard Theological Studies
IBC Interpretation: A Bible Commentary for Teaching and Preaching
ICC International Critical Commentary
IDBSup Interpreter’s Dictionary of the Bible: Supplementary Volume.
Edited by K. Crim. Nashville, 1976
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viii Abbreviations
Int Interpretation
ITC International Theological Commentary
J J (Jahwistic or Yahwistic) source
JANES Journal of the Ancient Near Eastern Society
JBL Journal of Biblical Literature
JJS Journal of Jewish Studies
JSem Journal of Semitics
JSJSup Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism
JSOT Journal for the Study of the Old Testament
LHBOTS Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies
MT Masoretic text
NABU Nouvelles assyriologiques breves et utilitaires
NCB New Century Bible
NEchtB Neue Echter Bibel
NICOT New International Commentary on the Old Testament
NRSV New Revised Standard Version
OBO Orbis biblicus et orientalis
OBT Overtures to Biblical Theology
OG Old Greek
OLA Orientalia lovaniensia analecta
OTE Old Testament Essays
P Priestly source
PEQ Palestine Exploration Quarterly
RevExp Review and Expositor
SAHL Studies in the Archaeology and History of the Levant
SBAB Stuttgarter biblische Aufsatzbände
SBL Society of Biblical Literature
SBLAIL Society of Biblical Literature Ancient Israel and Its Literature
SBS Stuttgarter Bibelstudien
ScrHier Scripta hierosolymitana
SJOT Scandinavian Journal of the Old Testament
ST Studia theologica
STDJ Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah
STRev Sewanee Theological Review
TCT Textual Criticism and the Translator
TDOT Theological Dictionary of the Old Testament. Edited by G. J.
Botterweck and H. Ringgren. Translated by J. T. Willis, G. W.
Bromiley, and D. E. Green. 8 vols. Grand Rapids, 1974–
ThWAT Theologisches Wörterbuch zum Alten Testament. Edited by G. J.
Botterweck and H. Ringgren.Stuttgart, 1970–
UF Ugarit-Forschungen
VT Vetus Testamentum
WBC Word Biblical Commentary
WMANT Wissenschaftliche Monographien zum Alten und Neuen Testament
ZAW Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft
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LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS
Barrie Bowman is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Biblical
Studies at the University of Shef(cid:191)eld, UK
Cory D. Crawford is Assistant Professor of Biblical Studies in the
Department of Classics and World Religions, Ohio University in
Athens, Ohio, USA
Steed Vernyl Davidson is Assistant Professor of Old Testament at Paci(cid:191)c
Lutheran Theological Seminary and the Graduate Theological Union
in Berkeley, California, USA
Michaela Geiger is Lecturer (Akademische Rätin) of Hebrew Bible at
Philipps-University Marburg, Germany
Mark K. George is Associate Professor of Hebrew Bible at the Iliff
School of Theology in Denver, Colorado, USA
Ann Jeffers is Senior Lecturer in Hebrew Bible and Second Temple
Judaism at Heythrop College, University of London, UK
Victor H. Matthews is Professor of Religious Studies and Dean of the
College of Humanities and Public Affairs at Missouri State Uni-
versity in Spring(cid:191)eld, Missouri, USA
Gert T. M. Prinsloo is Professor of Semitic Languages in the Department
of Ancient Languages at the University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South
Africa
Alison Scho(cid:191)eld is Associate Professor of Hebrew Bible and Judaic
Studies at the University of Denver in Denver, Colorado, USA
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