Full Description
Constructions of Space III engages with the great variety of sacred spaces set out and given meaning in the texts of the Hebrew Bible, early Jewish literature and the New Testament. Spatial-critical, as well as anthropological, philosophical and narrative perspectives are interacted with in creative ways and brought to bear on the spaces encountered within the texts. Among the concepts and themes explored are oppositional aspects such as holiness and danger/the profane, fear and hope, utopia and dystopia, and purity and impurity. The social and mythological significance of more 'grounded' places such as Jerusalem and Egypt, temples, burial places and threshing floors is considered alongside more ethereal and symbolic spaces like those of heaven, the last judgement and the kingdom of God. What emerges is a dynamic and lively set of perspectives that illuminates relationships between texts, spaces and communities.
Contents
Introduction - the Editors
Part I: Hebrew Bible
Chapter 1: Holy Men in Space, Stuart Lasine, Wichita State University, USA
Chapter 2: Egypt as a Space of Fear and a Space of Hope, Roland Boer, University of Newcastle, Australia
Chapter 3: Mythical Space and Mythical Time: Jerusalem as the Site of the Last Judgement, Klaus Bieberstein, Otto-Friedrich-University, Germany
Chapter 4: The Threshing Floor as Sacred Space in the Hebrew Bible: A Spatial and Anthroplogical Perspective, Tamara Prosaic, Monash University, Australia
Chapter 5: Taking Issue with Thirdspace: Reading Soja, Lefebvre and the Bible, Chris Meredith, University of Winchester, UK
Part II: New Testament and Intertestamental Literature
Chapter 7: What Happened to Heaven when the Righteous Finally Arrived? Transformation, Space and Redemption in 2 Baruch 51, Liv Ingeborg Lied, MF Norwegian School of Theology, Norway
Chapter 8: Death, Burial, and Sacred Space in the Temple Scroll, Nora David, Institute for Jewish Studies at the University of Vienna, Austria
Chapter 9: The Kingdom of God as 'Space in Motion' Towards a More Architectural Approach, Karen Wenell, University of Birmingham, UK
Chapter 10: Lukan Narrative Spatiality in Transition: A Reading of Acts 11.19-12.25 for Its Spaces, Matthew Sleeman, Oak Hill Theological College, UK
Chapter 11: Hebrews 3.7-4.11 and the Function of Mental Time-Space Landscapes, J. Cornelis de Vos, University of Münster, Germany
Chapter 12: Carnelian and Caryatids: Sacred Space in the Apocalypse of John, Jorunn Okland, Centre for Gender Research at the University of Oslo, Norway
Part III: Outlook
Chapter 13: The Space of Liturgical Being, David Jasper, University of Glasgow, UK
Index of References
Index of Authors
Index of Subjects
