Overview

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.”

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Author:   Mark J. Boda (McMaster Divinity College, Canada) ,  Dr. Dalit Rom-Shiloni, Ph.D. (Tel Aviv University, Israel)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   T.& T.Clark Ltd
ISBN:  

9780567696359

ISBN 10:   0567696359
Pages:   192
Publication Date:   22 February 2024
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of 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

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This volume models the kind of multidisciplinary collaboration that is vital to contemporary biblical scholarship. With exegetical precision it challenges dichotomies – between humans and nonhumans, domestic and wild – that have been dangerously absolutized by the industrialized mindset. Because that challenge is articulated in language accessible to non-experts, it merits wide usage by scholars, students, and interested readers of the Bible * Ellen F. Davis, Professor of Bible and Practical Theology, Duke Divinity School, USA * This first book of a new series on nature imagery in the Bible is like a beacon. It shows the way to systematic and interdisciplinary investigations, with a variety of aspects and in dialogue. It demonstrates that the boundaries between ‘nature’ and ‘culture’ are fluid and thus invites to a deeper reflection on our world. * Georg Fischer SJ, Professor emeritus, University of Innsbruck, Austria * Given the authority of the Bible across various domains of society (economic, social, political), and given the many climate-related challenges we all now face, how the Bible thinks about the world we inhabit, and the categories of “wild” and “domestic,” matters enormously. Mark Boda and Dalit Rom-Shiloni have assembled a stellar array of contributors who expertly guide readers into the variety of biblical understandings of these slippery concepts, and how we might make sense of them in light of today’s challenges. * Jacqueline E. Lapsley, President of Union Presbyterian Seminary, USA *

Author Information

Dalit Rom-Shiloni is Professor of Biblical Studies at Tel-Aviv University, Israel. Mark J. Boda is Professor of Old Testament at McMaster Divinity College, Canada.

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