Full Description
The present volume searches for different biblical perceptions of the wild, paying particular attention to the significance of fluid boundaries between the domestic and the wild, and to the options of crossing borders between them. Drawing on space, fauna, and flora, scholars investigate the ways biblical authors present the wild and the domestic and their interactions. In its six chapters and two responses, Hebrew Bible scholars, an archaeobotanist, an archaeologist, a geographer, and iconographers join forces to discuss the wild and its portrayals in biblical literature.The discussions bring to light the entire spectrum of real, imagined, metaphorized, and conceptualized forms of the wild that appear in biblical sources, as also in the material culture and agriculture of ancient Israel, and to some extent observe the great gap between biblical observations and modern studies of geography and of mapping that marks the distinctions between "the wilderness" and "the sown." The book is the first written product presented on two consecutive years (2019, 2020) at the SBL Annual Meetings in the Section: "Nature Imagery and Conceptions of Nature in the Bible."
Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
DNI Bible Supplements, Introduction
List of Abbreviations
Introduction - Mark J. Boda and Dalit Rom-Shiloni
Chapter 1: 'It's a Jungle in Here': Wild Animals, Plants and Places in the Book of Amos
—Alexander Coe Stewart, LeTourneau University, USA
Chapter 2: Outside the Walls: The Portrayal of Wild Animals in the Hebrew Bible
—Dorit Pomerantz, Tel-Aviv University, Israel
Chapter 3: Flora and Fauna in the Metaphorical Landscapes in the Song of Songs
— Martien Halvorson-Taylor, University of Virginia, USA
Chapter 4: Wildscapes, Landscapes and Specialized Land Management: the Impact of the Assyrian Rule over Land Exploitation in the Kingdom Of Judah
— Daffna Langgut and Yuval Gadot, Tel-Aviv University, Israel
Chapter 5: The Wilderness and The Sown in the Land of Israel: Historical Mapping, the Human Footprint, and Remote Sensing
— Noam Levin, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Chapter 6: Spatial Language of the Wild : Ya'ar, Midbar, And Sadeh
— Dalit Rom-Shiloni, Tel-Aviv University, Israel
Chapter 7: Nature and Critical Spatiality: a Response to Crossing Borders Between the Domestic and the Wild
— Jon L. Berquist, University of Redlands, USA
Chapter 8: Beyond the Nature-Culture Divide
—Anselm Hagedorn, University of Osnabruck, Germany
Index of Authors
Index of References
