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The Other Lands of Israel: Imaginations of the Land in 2 Baruch

By Liv Ingeborg Lied

Book information

Publisher
Brill Academic Pub
Year
2008
ISBN
9004165568, 9789004165564
Google Books ID
BIT66nR380sC
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1859911 bytes)
Series
Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism 129
Pages
XX+375\397
Topic
Religion
Orientation
portrait
Paginated
yes
Scanned
no
Time added
2013-03-17 02:58:18
Религиоведение;Религиоведение иудаизма;История иуд

Description

According to the current scholarly consensus, the apocalypse of 2 Baruch, written after the Fall of Jerusalem, either rejected the concept of the Land of Israel as a place of salvation or regarded it as of minor importance. Inspired by the perspective of Critical Spatial Theory, this book discusses the presuppositions behind this consensus with regard to the spatial epistemology it assumes, and explores the conception of the Land as a broad redemptive category. The result is a fresh portrait of the vitality of the Land-theme in the first centuries of the common era and a new perspective on the spatial imagination of 2 Baruch.

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