: Environmental Exploration of the Hebrew Scriptures
/ Daniel Hillel
New York
: Columbia University Press
, 2006.
xii, 354 p.
: , ill., maps
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PROLOGUE: A personal testament - Environment and culture: A premise and its implications - Ecological context: A region of disparate domains - First riverine domain: influence of Mesopotamia - Pastoral domain: legacy of the Bedouin Patriarchs - Second riverine domain: sojourn and slavery in Egypt - Desert domain: wanderings in Sinai and the Negev - Rainfed domain: settlement in the hill district of Canaan - Maritime domain: interactions with Philistines and Phoenicians - Urban domain: convergence of king and cult in Jerusalem - Exile domain: expulsion, survival, revival, and return - Overarching unity: culmination of ethical monotheism - EPILOGUE: the lasting relevance of early ecological influences