Memory and the City in Ancient Israel

352 Pages·2014·43.43 MB·English

by  Diana V Edelman

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Winona Lake, Indiana
eisenbrauns
2014
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Memory and the city in ancient Israel / edited by Diana V. Edelman and
Ehud Ben Zvi.
pages cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-57506-315-7 (paperback : alkaline paper)
1. Cities and towns, Ancient—Palestine. 2. Palestine—
Civilization—To 1500 3. Civilization, Ancient—Palestine. 4. City
planning—Palestine—History—To 1500. 5. City planning—Social
aspects—Palestine—History—To 1500. 6. Public spaces—
Palestine—History—To 1500. I. Edelman, Diana Vikander, 1954–
editor. II. Ben Zvi, Ehud, 1951– editor.
HT147.P27M46 2014
307.76095694—dc23
2014036051
The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of the American
National Standard for Information Sciences—Permanence of Paper for Printed Li-
brary Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1984. ™♾
Contents
Abbreviations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii
Part 1
Opening the Gates
An Introduction and Invitation to Join the Conversation
about Cities and Memory. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Ehud Ben Zvi
Cities of Glory and Cities of Pride:
Concepts, Gender, and Images of Cities in
Mesopotamia and in Ancient Israel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Stéphanie Anthonioz
Part 2
Crossing the Gates and Entering into the City (of Memory):
Memories of Urban Places and Spaces
Testing Entry:
The Social Functions of City-Gates in Biblical Memory. . . . . . 43
Carey Walsh
Inside-Outside:
Domestic Living Space in Biblical Memory . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Anne Katrine Gudme
Threshing Floors and Cities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Francis Landy
Palaces as Sites of Memory and Their Impact on the Construction
of an Elite “Hybrid” (Local-Global) Cultural Identity
in Persian-Period Literature. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
Kåre Berge
City Gardens and Parks in Biblical Social Memory. . . . . . . . . . 115
Diana Edelman
In Defense of the City: Memories of Water in the Persian Period. . . 157
Karolien Vermeulen
Cisterns and Wells in Biblical Memory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177
Hadi Ghantous and Diana Edelman
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Part 3
Individual Cities and Social Memory
Exploring Jerusalem as a Site of Memory in the
Late Persian and Early Hellenistic Periods. . . . . . . . . . . . . 197
Ehud Ben Zvi
The Memory of Samaria in the Books of Kings. . . . . . . . . . . . 219
Russell Hobson
How to Slander the Memory of Shechem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231
Yairah Amit
Mizpah and the Possibilities of Forgetting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245
Daniel Pioske
Dislocating Jerusalem’s Memory with Tyre. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257
Philippe Guillaume
Nineveh as Meme in Persian Period Yehud . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267
Steven W. Holloway
“Babylon” Forever, or
How To Divinize What You Want To Damn . . . . . . . . . . . . 293
Ulrike Sals
Building Castles on the Shifting Sands of Memory:
From Dystopian to Utopian Views of
Jerusalem in the Persian Period. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309
Carla Sulzbach
Index of Authors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321
Index of Scripture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 328
Abbreviations
General
BM tablets in the collections of the British Museum
CTMMA Cuneiform Texts in the Metropolitan Museum of Art
LXX Septuagint
MT Masoretic Text
TH Ziegler’s text of Theodotion
Reference Works
AB Anchor Bible
ABD Freedman, D. N., editor. The Anchor Bible Dictionary. 6 vols. Garden
City, NY: Doubleday, 1992
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Eisenbrauns, 2000. Reprint of Texts from Cuneiform Sources 5. Locust
Valley, NY: Augustin, 1975.
AfO Archiv für Orientforschung
AOAT Alter Orient und Altes Testament
ANEM Ancient Near East Monographs
ATD Das Alte Testament Deutsch
BA Biblical Archaeologist
BAR Biblical Archaeology Review
BASOR Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research
BDB Brown, F.; Driver, S. R.; and Briggs, C. A. Hebrew and English Lexicon
of the Old Testament. Oxford: Clarendon, 1907
Bib Biblica
BibInt Biblical Interpretation
BibIntS Biblical Interpretation Series
BM Beit Mikra
BTB Biblical Theology Bulletin
BZAW Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die Alttestamentliche Wissenschaft
CAD Oppenheim, A. L., et al., editors. The Assyrian Dictionary of the Ori-
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CBQ Catholic Biblical Quarterly
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CritInq Critical Inquiry
EncJud Roth, Cecil, editor. Encyclopaedia Judaica. 16 vols. Jerusalem: Keter,
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vii
viii Abbreviations
ErIsr Eretz-Israel
FAT Forschungen zum Alten Testament
FOTL Forms of the Old Testament Literature
FRLANT Forschungen zur Religion und Literatur des Alten und Neuen Testaments
HALOT Koehler, L.; Baumgartner, W.; and Stamm, J. J. The Hebrew and Ara-
maic Lexicon of the Old Testament. Translated and edited under supervi-
sion of M. E. J. Richardson. 5 vols. Leiden: Brill, 1994–2000
HANEM History of the Ancient Near East Monographs
HSM Harvard Semitic Monographs
HTKAT Herders theologischer Kommentar zum Alten Testament
JBL Journal of Biblical Literature
JHS Journal of Hellenic Studies
JNES Journal of Near Eastern Studies
JNSL Journal of Northwest Semitic Languages
JSOT Journal for the Study of the Old Testament
JSOTSup Journal for the Study of the Old Testament Supplement Series
KAI Donner, H., and Röllig, W. Kanaanäische und aramäische Inschriften. 3
vols. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1962–64
KTU Dietrich, M.; Loretz, O.; and Sanmartín, J., editors. Die Keilalpha-
betischen Texte aus Ugarit. Alter Orient und Altes Testament 24. Keve-
laer: Butzon & Bercker / Neukirchen-Vluyn: Neukirchener Verlag, 1976
LHBOTS Library of Hebrew Bible / Old Testament Studies
LSTS Library of Second Temple Studies
MACO Monografías sobre el Antiguo Cercano Oriente
MDOG Mitteilungen der deutschen Orient-Gesellschaft
NABU Nouvelles assyriologiques brèves et utilitaires
NCBC New Century Bible Commentary
NEA Near Eastern Archaeology
OBO Orbis biblicus et orientalis
OED Oxford English Dictionary
OLA Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta
OTL Old Testament Library
PEQ Palestine Exploration Quarterly
PHSC Perspectives on Hebrew Scriptures and Its Contexts
RB Revue biblique
SJOT Scandinavian Journal of the Old Testament
SBLAIL Society of Biblical Literature Ancient Israel and Its Literature Series
SBLDS Society of Biblical Literature Dissertation Series
SBLMS Society of Biblical Literature Monograph Series
SBLSymS Society of Biblical Literature Symposium Series
SBLWAW Society of Biblical Literature Writings from the Ancient World
SHR Studies in the History of Religions
TA Tel Aviv
TAD Türk Arkeoloji Dergisi
TDOT Botterweck, G. J., and Ringgren, H., editors. Theological Dictionary of
the Old Testament. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1974–2006
Abbreviations ix
TLG Thesaurus Linguae Graecae
UBL Ugaritisch-Biblische Literatur
UF Ugarit-Forschungen
VF Verkündigung und Forschung
VT Vetus Testamentum
VTSup Vetus Testamentum Supplements
WBC Word Biblical Commentary
WMANT Wissenschaftliche Monographien zum Alten und Neuen Testament
ZAW Zeitschrift für die Alttestamentliche Wissenschaft