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Author Vermeulen, Karolien, author.

Title Conceptualizing biblical cities : a stylistic study / Karolien Vermeulen
Published Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2020]

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Contents Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- 1: The City for Starters -- Biblical Cities Before (Briefly) -- Bad Cities -- (Bad) City-Women -- Jerusalem, the One -- People-City-Empire -- The City Concept Untangled -- 2: Shaping the City Textually -- The Issue of 'City' in Biblical Hebrew -- Critical-Spatial Theory and Biblical Cities -- A Stylistic Makeover -- Firstspace, Secondspace and Thirdspace Redefined -- The Hebrew Bible as a Spatial Odyssey -- 3: The Personified City -- Personification of the City -- The City: A Human in Body and Mind9
The City as Opponent: Metaphor or Metonymy -- Feminization of the City -- A Woman with Many Faces -- Wives and No-Wives -- Mothers and No-Mothers -- Daughters and Children -- Siblings -- Whore and Worshipper Revisited -- Conquering Cities, Conquering Women -- 4: The Urban Animal -- The Animal City -- City Animals -- Spaces of Desolation -- Spaces of Destruction -- Spaces of Sacrifice -- Categorizing Animal Cities and City Animals -- Negativity -- Color and Evaluation -- Linguistic Negatives -- Negative of the Conceptual Ideal -- 5: Bodyscapes -- Human Bodies, Animal Bodies or Just Bodies
Human Bodies -- Animal Bodies -- Shifting Bodies -- Body Parts -- Shaping the Body, Scaping the City -- 6: City Building -- The Body and the Building -- Pars Pro Toto -- Parts -- Materiality -- Construction and Destruction -- 7: Container City -- In and Out (Into/Out of) -- Entrances and Exits -- Full and Empty -- Literal and Metaphorical Content -- Immobility and Mobility -- 8: The Urban Object -- Concise Physicality -- General Urban Things -- Unique Urban Things -- Manipulation and Transport -- Handing Over and Handling Cities -- Turning Cities into Things -- Counting -- Lack of Agency
9: The Vertical City -- Feeling Geography -- Towers -- Other Urban Heights -- Mountains -- Geography and the Mind -- The City of God -- Jerusalem/Zion as the City in Which God Resides -- Other Cities as Cities Owned and Controlled by God -- 10: The City at Last -- The Concept of 'City' Defined -- Stylistic Spatiality -- The Human City -- The City-Woman Restored -- We Are All City -- Destination City -- Bibliography -- Subject Index -- Scripture Index
Summary 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). Karolien Vermeulen is FWO Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Institute of Jewish Studies at the University of Antwerp, Belgium. Her research interests include (cognitive) stylistics, Biblical Hebrew, critical spatiality, metaphor theory, and urban studies
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 17, 2020)
SUBJECT Bible. Old Testament -- Language, style
Bible. Old Testament fast
Subject Cities and towns in the Bible.
Biblical studies & exegesis.
Semantics, discourse analysis, etc.
Language: reference & general.
Linguistics.
Religion -- Biblical Studies -- General.
Language Arts & Disciplines -- Linguistics -- Semantics.
Foreign Language Study -- Hebrew.
Language Arts & Disciplines -- Linguistics -- General.
Language and languages -- Style
Cities and towns in the Bible
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9783030452704
3030452700