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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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 todays challenges. * Jacqueline E. Lapsley, President of Union Presbyterian Seminary, USA *
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Examines different notions of the wild in the Hebrew Bible
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
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.
