Conceptualizing Biblical Cities A Stylistic Study
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This book offers a comprehensive treatment of the city image in the Hebrew Bible, with specific attention to stylistics. By engaging with spatial theory (Lefebvre 1974, Soja 1996), the author develops a new framework to analyse the concept of 'city', arguing that a set of conceptual images defines the Biblical Hebrew city, each of them constructed using the same linguistic toolkit. Contrary to previous studies, the book shows that biblical cities are not necessarily evil or female. In addition, there is no substantial difference between the metaphorical images used for Jerusalem and those used for other cities. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of stylistics, urban studies, critical-spatial theory and biblical studies (especially Biblical Hebrew).
Book information
ISBN: | 9783030452728 |
Publisher: | Springer International Publishing |
Imprint: | Palgrave Macmillan |
Pub date: | 25 Jul 2021 |
DEWEY: | 221.830776 |
DEWEY edition: | 23 |
Language: | English |
Number of pages: | 275 |
Weight: | 381g |
Height: | 210mm |
Width: | 148mm |
Spine width: | 17mm |