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M C eMory and the ity a i in nCient srael M C eMory and the ity a i in nCient srael e ditedby d V. e e b Z iana delMan and hud en Vi Winona Lake, Indiana eisenbrauns 2014 © Copyright 2014 Eisenbrauns Inc. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. www.eisenbrauns.com Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Memory and the city in ancient Israel / edited by Diana V. Edelman and Ehud Ben Zvi. pages cm Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-1-57506-315-7 (paperback : alkaline paper) 1. Cities and towns, Ancient—Palestine. 2. Palestine— Civilization—To 1500 3. Civilization, Ancient—Palestine. 4. City planning—Palestine—History—To 1500. 5. City planning—Social aspects—Palestine—History—To 1500. 6. Public spaces— Palestine—History—To 1500. I. Edelman, Diana Vikander, 1954– editor. II. Ben Zvi, Ehud, 1951– editor. HT147.P27M46 2014 307.76095694—dc23 2014036051 The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of the American National Standard for Information Sciences—Permanence of Paper for Printed Li- brary Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1984. ™♾ Contents Abbreviations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii Part 1 Opening the Gates An Introduction and Invitation to Join the Conversation about Cities and Memory. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Ehud Ben Zvi Cities of Glory and Cities of Pride: Concepts, Gender, and Images of Cities in Mesopotamia and in Ancient Israel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Stéphanie Anthonioz Part 2 Crossing the Gates and Entering into the City (of Memory): Memories of Urban Places and Spaces Testing Entry: The Social Functions of City-Gates in Biblical Memory. . . . . . 43 Carey Walsh Inside-Outside: Domestic Living Space in Biblical Memory . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 Anne Katrine Gudme Threshing Floors and Cities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79 Francis Landy Palaces as Sites of Memory and Their Impact on the Construction of an Elite “Hybrid” (Local-Global) Cultural Identity in Persian-Period Literature. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99 Kåre Berge City Gardens and Parks in Biblical Social Memory. . . . . . . . . . 115 Diana Edelman In Defense of the City: Memories of Water in the Persian Period. . . 157 Karolien Vermeulen Cisterns and Wells in Biblical Memory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177 Hadi Ghantous and Diana Edelman v vi Contents Part 3 Individual Cities and Social Memory Exploring Jerusalem as a Site of Memory in the Late Persian and Early Hellenistic Periods. . . . . . . . . . . . . 197 Ehud Ben Zvi The Memory of Samaria in the Books of Kings. . . . . . . . . . . . 219 Russell Hobson How to Slander the Memory of Shechem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231 Yairah Amit Mizpah and the Possibilities of Forgetting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245 Daniel Pioske Dislocating Jerusalem’s Memory with Tyre. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257 Philippe Guillaume Nineveh as Meme in Persian Period Yehud . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267 Steven W. Holloway “Babylon” Forever, or How To Divinize What You Want To Damn . . . . . . . . . . . . 293 Ulrike Sals Building Castles on the Shifting Sands of Memory: From Dystopian to Utopian Views of Jerusalem in the Persian Period. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309 Carla Sulzbach Index of Authors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321 Index of Scripture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 328 Abbreviations General BM tablets in the collections of the British Museum CTMMA Cuneiform Texts in the Metropolitan Museum of Art LXX Septuagint MT Masoretic Text TH Ziegler’s text of Theodotion Reference Works AB Anchor Bible ABD Freedman, D. N., editor. The Anchor Bible Dictionary. 6 vols. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1992 ABC Grayson, A. Kirk. Assyrian and Babylonian Chronicles. Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns, 2000. Reprint of Texts from Cuneiform Sources 5. Locust Valley, NY: Augustin, 1975. AfO Archiv für Orientforschung AOAT Alter Orient und Altes Testament ANEM Ancient Near East Monographs ATD Das Alte Testament Deutsch BA Biblical Archaeologist BAR Biblical Archaeology Review BASOR Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research BDB Brown, F.; Driver, S. R.; and Briggs, C. A. Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament. Oxford: Clarendon, 1907 Bib Biblica BibInt Biblical Interpretation BibIntS Biblical Interpretation Series BM Beit Mikra BTB Biblical Theology Bulletin BZAW Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die Alttestamentliche Wissenschaft CAD Oppenheim, A. L., et al., editors. The Assyrian Dictionary of the Ori- ental Institute of the University of Chicago. 21 vols. (A–Z). Chicago: Oriental Institute, 1956–2011 CBQ Catholic Biblical Quarterly Cowley Cowley, A. E. Aramaic Papyri of the Fifth Century b.c. Oxford, 1923 CritInq Critical Inquiry EncJud Roth, Cecil, editor. Encyclopaedia Judaica. 16 vols. Jerusalem: Keter, 1972 vii viii Abbreviations ErIsr Eretz-Israel FAT Forschungen zum Alten Testament FOTL Forms of the Old Testament Literature FRLANT Forschungen zur Religion und Literatur des Alten und Neuen Testaments HALOT Koehler, L.; Baumgartner, W.; and Stamm, J. J. The Hebrew and Ara- maic Lexicon of the Old Testament. Translated and edited under supervi- sion of M. E. J. Richardson. 5 vols. Leiden: Brill, 1994–2000 HANEM History of the Ancient Near East Monographs HSM Harvard Semitic Monographs HTKAT Herders theologischer Kommentar zum Alten Testament JBL Journal of Biblical Literature JHS Journal of Hellenic Studies JNES Journal of Near Eastern Studies JNSL Journal of Northwest Semitic Languages JSOT Journal for the Study of the Old Testament JSOTSup Journal for the Study of the Old Testament Supplement Series KAI Donner, H., and Röllig, W. Kanaanäische und aramäische Inschriften. 3 vols. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1962–64 KTU Dietrich, M.; Loretz, O.; and Sanmartín, J., editors. Die Keilalpha- betischen Texte aus Ugarit. Alter Orient und Altes Testament 24. Keve- laer: Butzon & Bercker / Neukirchen-Vluyn: Neukirchener Verlag, 1976 LHBOTS Library of Hebrew Bible / Old Testament Studies LSTS Library of Second Temple Studies MACO Monografías sobre el Antiguo Cercano Oriente MDOG Mitteilungen der deutschen Orient-Gesellschaft NABU Nouvelles assyriologiques brèves et utilitaires NCBC New Century Bible Commentary NEA Near Eastern Archaeology OBO Orbis biblicus et orientalis OED Oxford English Dictionary OLA Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta OTL Old Testament Library PEQ Palestine Exploration Quarterly PHSC Perspectives on Hebrew Scriptures and Its Contexts RB Revue biblique SJOT Scandinavian Journal of the Old Testament SBLAIL Society of Biblical Literature Ancient Israel and Its Literature Series SBLDS Society of Biblical Literature Dissertation Series SBLMS Society of Biblical Literature Monograph Series SBLSymS Society of Biblical Literature Symposium Series SBLWAW Society of Biblical Literature Writings from the Ancient World SHR Studies in the History of Religions TA Tel Aviv TAD Türk Arkeoloji Dergisi TDOT Botterweck, G. J., and Ringgren, H., editors. Theological Dictionary of the Old Testament. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1974–2006 Abbreviations ix TLG Thesaurus Linguae Graecae UBL Ugaritisch-Biblische Literatur UF Ugarit-Forschungen VF Verkündigung und Forschung VT Vetus Testamentum VTSup Vetus Testamentum Supplements WBC Word Biblical Commentary WMANT Wissenschaftliche Monographien zum Alten und Neuen Testament ZAW Zeitschrift für die Alttestamentliche Wissenschaft
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