Cities Through the Looking Glass

Published by Penn State University Press 2008

Cities Through the Looking Glass

Essays on the History and Archaeology of Biblical Urbanism

Edited by: Rami Arav

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781575065878

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The essays in this book originated as papers presented at the Conference on Urbanism in the Biblical World that took place on October 28–30, 2003, at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. This conference was part of the annual series of the Clifton Batchelder Conference for Biblical Archaeology and the Bethsaida Excavations Project.

The conference was structured so that text scholars and material-culture scholars were able to interact and influence one another. This interdisciplinary approach created a unique, productive atmosphere where scholars who come from different disciplines were able to share and exchange ideas in ways that seldom happen in our increasingly specialized academic world. Thus, scholars from three major disciplines—Greek philosophy, biblical studies, and archaeology—produced lectures and papers on urbanism in the ancient world that reflect multihued perspectives that draw on the specialties of each contributor.

Few conferences on urbanism engage in an interdisciplinary approach, and few deal with the questions raised in this book; even fewer are published and see the light of day. In this volume, we are pleased to be able to share a fine collection of essays from the conference with the larger community of people interested in the ancient world.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Abbreviations Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Introduction Rami Arav Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Landscape of Shadows: The Image of City in the Hebrew Bible Nicolae Roddy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	11
Gospel Cities: Real, Imagined, and Avoided Paul Allen Williams Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	23
Text and the City Leonard Greenspoon Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	39
The City and the Philosopher in Ancient Greece Laura W. Grams Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	53
Urbanism in Galilee: A Study of Kinneret, Hazor, Dan, and Tzer in the Iron Age John T. Greene Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	65
The Fortified City of Bethsaida: The Case of an Iron Age Capital City Rami Arav Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	83
Jerusalem between the Hasmoneans and Herod the Great Dan Bahat Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	117
Indexes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	129

Language: English
Publisher: Penn State University Press
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Cities Through the Looking Glass

Essays on the History and Archaeology of Biblical Urbanism