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Ausgabe:

Oktober/2020

Spalte:

920–922

Kategorie:

Judaistik

Autor/Hrsg.:

Ben-Eliyahu, Eyal

Titel/Untertitel:

Identity and Territory. Jewish Perceptions of Space in Antiquity.

Verlag:

Berkeley u. a.: University of California Press 2019. XII, 195 S. m. 5 Abb. u. 6 Ktn. Geb. US$ 95,00. ISBN 978-0-520-29360-1.

Rezensent:

Catherine Hezser

This study of the relationship between spatial perception and identity in post-biblical Judaism stands in line with the recent scholarly focus on space and geography in antiquity (cf. Peter Van Nuffelen, ed., Historiography and Space in Late Antiquity, Cambridge: CUP, 2019; Daniela Dueck and Kai Brodersen, eds., Geography in Classical Antiquity, Cambridge: CUP, 2012) and in Jewish culture (Barbara E. Mann, Space and Place in Jewish Studies, New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2012; Charlotte E. Fonrobert, »The New Spatial Turn in Jewish Studies«, AJS Review 33:1, 2009, 155–64). It is the revised and expanded English version of a book published in Hebrew in 2014 (Between Borders: The Boundaries of the Land of Israel etc., Jerusalem: Yad ...


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