Portraying the Land

Hebrew Maps of the Land of Israel from Rashi to the Early 20th Century

Rehav Rubin (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

XXV, 326 Seiten

2019
De Gruyter (Verlag)
9783110683202 (ISBN)

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The book presents and discusses a large corpus of Jewish maps of the Holy Land that were drawn by Jewish scholars from the 11th to the 20th century, and thus fills a significant lacuna both in the history of cartography and in Jewish studies. The maps depict the biblical borders of the Holy Land, the allotments of the tribes, and the forty years of wanderings in the desert. Most of these maps are in Hebrew although there are several in Yiddish, Ladino and in European languages. The book focuses on four aspects: it presents an up-to-date corpus of known maps of various types and genres; it suggests a classification of these maps according to their source, shape and content; it presents and analyses the main topics that were depicted in the maps; and it puts the maps in their historical and cultural contexts, both within the Jewish world and the sphere of European cartography of their time. The book is an innovative contribution to the fields of history of cartography and Jewish studies. It is written for both professional readers and the general public. The Hebrew edition (2014), won the Izhak Ben-Zvi Prize.

Rehav Rubin, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.

Erscheinungsdatum	02.12.2019
Zusatzinfo	85 b/w and 50 col. ill.
Verlagsort	Berlin/Boston
Sprache	englisch
Original-Titel	Zuret ha-aretz. Eretz Israel ba-mapa ha-ivrit mi Rashi ve ad reshit meah ha-esrim
Maße	170 x 240 mm
Gewicht	722 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Judentum
Schlagworte	Hebräisch-Jüdisch • Hebrew-Jewish maps • Heiliges Land • history of cartography • Kartografie • Landkarten • The Holy Land
ISBN-13	9783110683202 / 9783110683202
Zustand	Neuware