King and the Land - A Geography of Royal Power in the Biblical World

Zusatztext The gains of the book...are considerable for those who read with sufficient patience. They will read more knowingly about royal power in the Bible. And beyond the scope of the book itself, the tension between centralized economic-political leverage and a community-based social realty is immediately pertinent to our interpretive situation in the United States. The book will help us read more knowingly the Bible as an arena in which social power is intensely contested and our own circumstance of public power that faces acute crisis. Informationen zum Autor Stephen C. Russell is Assistant Professor of Ancient History at John Jay College, CUNY. Klappentext This book maps unexplored dimensions of royal power in the biblical world by examining archaeological and textual evidence for royal control of privately-held lands, religious buildings, collectively-governed towns, and urban water systems. Zusammenfassung In The King and the Land, Stephen C. Russell offers a history of space and power in the biblical world by demonstrating how the monarchies in ancient Israel and Judah asserted their power over strategically important spaces such as privately-held lands, religious buildings, collectively-governed towns, and urban water systems. Case studies in the book treat Solomon's use of foreign architecture (1 Kings 5-8), David's dedication of land to Yahweh (2 Samuel 24), Jehu's decommissioning of Baal's temple (2 Kings 10), Absalom's navigation of the collective politics of Levantine towns (2 Samuel 15), and Hezekiah's reshaping of the tunnels that supplied Jerusalem with water (2 Kings 20; 2 Chronicles 32). Steeped in archaeological and textual evidence, this book contextualizes Israelite and Judahite royal and tribal politics within broader patterns of ancient Near Eastern spatial power. By providing a historical investigation into the nature of power and physical space in the Iron Age Levant, this book also offers fresh literary readings of the biblical texts that anchor its theses....

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• Authors: Stephen C. Russell, Stephen C. (Assistant Professor of Ancien Russell, Stephen C. (Assistant Professor of Ancient History Russell, Russell Stephen C.
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 26.01.2016
• EAN: 9780199361885
• ISBN: 978-0-19-936188-5
• No. of pages: 304
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity; Non-fiction book > History > Pre and early history, antiquity; RELIGION / Antiquities & Archaeology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, RELIGION / Christianity / General, RELIGION / Judaism / Talmud, RELIGION / Biblical Studies / General, Christianity, Ancient / Biblical Israel, Archaeology by period / region, Criticism and exegesis of sacred texts, Biblical Studies & Exegesis, Judaism: sacred texts and revered writings, Biblical Archaeology, Judaism: Sacred Texts