Jerusalem as Contested Space in Ezekiel

Exilic Encounters with Emotions, Space, and Identity Politics

Natalie Mylonas (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

206 Seiten

2025
T.& T.Clark Ltd (Verlag)
978-0-567-70645-4 (ISBN)

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Natalie Mylonas uses Ezekiel 16 as a case study in order to reveal the critical relationship between space, emotion, and identity politics in the Hebrew Bible. Drawing on interdisciplinary research that emphasises how space and emotions are inextricably linked in human experience, Mylonas explores the portrayal of Yhwh’s wife, Jerusalem, in Ezekiel 16 as a personified city who feels emotion. She foregrounds purity and gender issues, as well as debates on emotions in the Hebrew Bible, emphasising that spatiality is a key component of how these issues are conceptualised in ancient Israel.

This book argues that the power struggle between Jerusalem and Yhwh in Ezekiel 16 is a struggle over the contested space of Jerusalem’s body and the city space. Jerusalem’s emotions are in a dynamic relationship with the spaces in the text – they are signified by these spaces, shift as the constitution of the spaces shifts, and are shaped by Jerusalem’s use of space. Her desire, pride, and shamelessness are communicated spatially through her use of city space, while her representation as disgusting is underscored by her “uncontrollable” female body.

Mylonas concludes by showing how Ezekiel’s vision of the new Jerusalem in Ezekiel 40-48 re-establishes sacred space through the erasure of the feminine city metaphor coupled with strict boundary policing, which is a far cry from the assault on Jerusalem’s boundaries described in Ezekiel 16.

Natalie Mylonas is Sessional Academic at the Australian Catholic University and Honorary Researcher at Macquarie University, Australia. She is Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and a member of the Macquarie University node of the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions.

Preface
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
1. Ezekiel, Displacement, and Trauma
2. Approaching Emotions
3. The Inextricable Link Between Emotions, Spatiality and Gender
4. Abandoned in an Open Field
5. Clean and Unclean, Sacred and Profane: The Spatiality of Holiness in Ezekiel
6. Jerusalem’s Changing Body: From Infant to Reproductive Female
7. Jerusalem’s Transformation of City Space
8. The Destruction of Jerusalem’s Spaces and Body
9. Sacred Space Re-established: Boundary Policing and the Disappearance of the Feminine
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	01.02.2024
Reihe/Serie	The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies
Verlagsort	Edinburgh
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Bibelausgaben / Bibelkommentare
Themenwelt	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
ISBN-10	0-567-70645-1 / 0567706451
ISBN-13	978-0-567-70645-4 / 9780567706454
Zustand	Neuware