Ancient cities served as the actual, worldly landscape populated by
"material" sites of memory. Some of these sites were personal and
others were directly and intentionally involved in the shaping of a
collective social memory, such as palaces, temples, inscriptions,
walls, and gates. Many cities were also sites of social memory in a
very different way. Like Babylon, Nineveh, or Jerusalem, they
served as ciphers that activated and communicated various mnemonic
worlds as they integrated multiple images, remembered events, and
provided a variety of meanings in diverse ancient communities.
Memory and the City in Ancient Israel contributes to the study of
social memory in ancient Israel in the late Persian and early
Hellenistic periods by exploring "the city," both urban spaces and
urban centers. It opens with a study that compares basic
conceptualizing tendencies of cities in Mesopotamia with their
counterparts in ancient Israel. Its essays then explore memories of
gates, domestic spaces, threshing floors, palaces, city gardens and
parks, natural and "domesticated" water in urban settings,
cisterns, and wells. Finally, the studies turn to particular cities
of memory in ancient Israel: Jerusalem, Samaria, Shechem, Mizpah,
Tyre, Nineveh, and Babylon. The volume, which emerged from meetings
of the European Association of Biblical Studies, includes the work
of Stephanie Anthonioz, Yairah Amit, Ehud Ben Zvi, KAYre Berge,
Diana Edelman, Hadi Ghantous, Anne Katrine Gudme, Philippe
Guillaume, Russell Hobson, Steven W. Holloway, Francis Landy,
Daniel Pioske, Ulrike Sals, Carla Sulzbach, Karolien Vermeulen, and
Carey Walsh.
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