Every city shall be forsaken :   urbanism and prophecy in ancient Israel and the Near East / 
edited by Lester L. Grabbe and Robert D. Haak 
 - Sheffield, England :   Sheffield Academic Press,  2001 
 - 226 p.  ;  25 cm. 
 - Journal for the study of the Old Testament. Supplement series ;  330 .
<br/><br/>Introduction and overview / Lester L. Grabbe -- Cityscape to landscape: the 'back to nature' theme in Isaiah 1-35 / Joseph Blenkinsopp -- City of chaos, city of stone, city of flesh: urbanscapes in prophetic discourses / Robert P. Carroll -- Proximity to the central Davidic citadel and the greater and lesser prophets / Robert B. Coote -- This land is my land: on nature as property in the Book of Ezekiel / Julie Galambush -- Sup-urbs or only hyp-urbs?: prophets and populations in ancient Israel and socio-historical method / Lester L. Grabbe -- The savage made civilized: an examination of Ezekiel 16.8 / S. Tamar Kamionkowski -- Reconstructing Haggai's Jerusalem: demographic and sociological considerations and the search for an adequate methodological point of departure / John Kessler -- The sociology of preindustrial cities / Ben D. Nefzger -- City as lofty as heaven: Arbela and other cities in neo-Assyrian prophecy / Martti Nissinen -- Jerusalem: an example of war in a walled city (Isaiah 3-4) / John D.W. Watts. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781841272023‎1841272027 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Bible. Prophets Criticism, interpretation, etc.Bible. Old Testament Criticism, interpretation, etc.Cities and towns Biblical teaching.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>BS680.C5   / .E94 2001