TY - BOOK ID - 121297828 TI - Identity and Territory : Jewish Perceptions of Space in Antiquity PY - 2019 SN - 9780520293601 0520293606 9780520966789 0520966783 PB - Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, DB - UniCat KW - Space KW - Jews KW - Judaism KW - Religious aspects KW - Identity KW - History KW - Palestine KW - In Judaism KW - Judaism. KW - boundaries. KW - contemporary. KW - debate. KW - global. KW - government. KW - holy land. KW - holy sites. KW - ideology. KW - international. KW - israel. KW - jewish history. KW - jewish holy land. KW - jewish holy sites. KW - jewish identity. KW - jewish. KW - jews. KW - judaism. KW - land boundaries. KW - land ownership. KW - land rights. KW - maps. KW - nationhood. KW - political discourse. KW - politics. KW - rabbi. KW - rabbinic literature. KW - religion. KW - religious identities. KW - religious identity. KW - religious studies. KW - second temple period. KW - territory. KW - worldwide. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:121297828 AB - Throughout history, the relationship between Jews and their land has been a vibrant, much-debated topic within the Jewish world and in international political discourse. Identity and Territory explores how ancient conceptions of Israel-of both the land itself and its shifting frontiers and borders-have played a decisive role in forming national and religious identities across the millennia. Through the works of Second Temple period Jews and rabbinic literature, Eyal Ben-Eliyahu examines the role of territorial status, boundaries, mental maps, and holy sites, drawing comparisons to popular Jewish and Christian perceptions of space. Showing how space defines nationhood and how Jewish identity influences perceptions of space, Ben-Eliyahu uncovers varied understandings of the land that resonate with contemporary views of the relationship between territory and ideology. ER -