Crossing Borders between the Domestic and the Wild

Dalit Rom-Shiloni is Professor of Biblical Studies at Tel-Aviv University, Israel.Mark J. Boda is Professor of Old Testament at McMaster Divinity College, Canada.

[This] is a stellar first volume in what promises to be a ground-breaking book series for biblical studies’ engagement with the natural sciences.

• List of Figures List of TablesDNI Bible Supplements, IntroductionList of Abbreviations Introduction – Mark J. Boda and Dalit Rom-ShiloniChapter 1: 'It's a Jungle in Here': Wild Animals, Plants and Places in the Book of Amos—Alexander Coe Stewart, LeTourneau University, USAChapter 2: Outside the Walls: The Portrayal of Wild Animals in the Hebrew Bible—Dorit Pomerantz, Tel-Aviv University, IsraelChapter 3: Flora and Fauna in the Metaphorical Landscapes in the Song of Songs— Martien Halvorson-Taylor, University of Virginia, USAChapter 4: Wildscapes, Landscapes and Specialized Land Management: the Impact of the Assyrian Rule over Land Exploitation in the Kingdom Of Judah— Daffna Langgut and Yuval Gadot, Tel-Aviv University, IsraelChapter 5: The Wilderness and The Sown in the Land of Israel: Historical Mapping, the Human Footprint, and Remote Sensing— Noam Levin, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, IsraelChapter 6: Spatial Language of the Wild : Ya'ar, Midbar, And Sadeh— Dalit Rom-Shiloni, Tel-Aviv University, IsraelChapter 7: Nature and Critical Spatiality: a Response to Crossing Borders Between the Domestic and the Wild— Jon L. Berquist, University of Redlands, USAChapter 8: Beyond the Nature-Culture Divide—Anselm Hagedorn, University of Osnabruck, GermanyIndex of AuthorsIndex of References