The City Gate in Ancient Israel and Her Neighbors
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-41666-6 (ISBN)
In The City Gate in Ancient Israel and Her Neighbors, Daniel A. Frese provides a wide-ranging portrayal of one of the most prominent social institutions in the kingdoms of the southern Levant during the Iron II period: the use of the city gate as a hub for numerous and diverse civic functions. The book provides an up-to-date description of the architecture of gate complexes based on archaeological evidence, and a systematic description of the many functions of the gate seen in hundreds of texts from the Hebrew Bible and the broader ancient Near East. The final chapters of the book discuss the conceptual significance of gates in Israelite culture, based on idiomatic and symbolic gate terminology in the Hebrew Bible.
Daniel A. Frese, Ph.D. (2012), the University of California, San Diego, is Assistant Professor of Hebrew Language and Literature at the University of Kentucky.
Acknowledgments
List of Figures
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
1Sources, Goals, Methodology
2Goals of the Present Study
3Synchronic Analysis
4The Hebrew Bible
5Archaeological Data
6Assyrian Reliefs
7Gates and the Rural Population of Ancient Israel
8Corpus of Gates
Section 1: Gate Architecture
1Gatehouse Architecture: the Ground Floor
1Building Materials
2“Gatehouse” in the Hebrew Bible
3Gatehouse Passage and Chambers
4Gatehouse Doors
5Posts and Pivots
6Metal Bands
7Thresholds
8Locking the Gate
2Gatehouse Architecture, Part 2: the Upper Floor
1Ceilings
2Doorways
3Windows
4The Second Floor
5The Gatehouse Roof
6Towers
3The Architectural Purpose of the Gatehouse
1Three Sets of Doors?
2Emergency Blockage?
3Guardrooms?
4Horse Hitching Stalls?
5The Architectural Function of Piers and Chambers
6Metrological Data
7Contemporaneous Architecture in the Southern Levant
8Stacked Broad Rooms
9Middle Bronze Gatehouse Architecture
4The Use of the Gatehouse
5Gate Complexes and City Planning
1Plazas
2Number and Location of Gates
3Water Drainage
4Considerations Affecting Gate Size and Building Materials
5Public Works in the Gate Complex
Section 2: Gate Functions
6The Gate as a Public Space
1Public Notice
2Public Assembly and Public Address
3Display of Corpses or Body Parts
4Public Humiliation
5Propaganda
6Privacy in the Gate
7The City Council in the Gate
1Elders, Kings, and Honor in the Gate
2Legal Transactions in the Gate
3Judicial Proceedings in the Gate
4Punishment in the Gate
5Governmental Functions in the Gate
8Other Gate Functions
1Cultic Functions in the Gate
2Commercial Use of the Gate
3Agricultural Functions in the Gate
4Military Functions of the Gate
5Indirect Entry Gates
6Social Functions of the Gate
Section 3: Figurative Gates And Gate Symbolism
9Figurative Gates
1“Gates” in the D Source
2The Entrance to the Tabernacle Courtyard
3The Desert Encampment “Gate”
4Other Figurative Uses of שער
5Possible Figurative Uses of שער
6“Entering” and “Exiting” at the City Gate
10Gate Symbolism
1Monarchs and Building Projects
2New States, New Buildings
3City on a Hill
4Designed to Impress
5Conspicuous Consumption
6The Gate as a Symbol of Community Well-Being
7Gates and Prophetic Discourse
11Gates as Boundaries
1Gates and Liminality
2Gates as Literal and Symbolic Boundaries
3Magic and Ritual at the Gate
4Dangerous Gateways?
5Evaluation of Liminality
Summary and Conclusion
Appendix A: Chart of Gatehouse Dimensions
Appendix B: Chart of Average Gatehouse Dimensions
Appendix C: Plans of Gates in Corpus
Bibliography
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 18.01.2020 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Culture and History of the Ancient Near East ; 108 |
| Verlagsort | Leiden |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 155 x 235 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie |
| ISBN-10 | 90-04-41666-8 / 9004416668 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-90-04-41666-6 / 9789004416666 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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