The Other Lands of Israel: Imaginations of the Land in 2 by Liv Ingeborg Lied

By Liv Ingeborg Lied

Based on the present scholarly consensus, the apocalypse of two Baruch, written after the autumn of Jerusalem, both rejected the idea that of the Land of Israel as a spot of salvation or looked it as of teen significance. encouraged through the viewpoint of severe Spatial conception, this e-book discusses the presuppositions at the back of this consensus with reference to the spatial epistemology it assumes, and explores the belief of the Land as a huge redemptive class. the result's a clean portrait of the power of the Land-theme within the first centuries of the typical period and a brand new point of view at the spatial mind's eye of two Baruch.

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Kieffer, Le Monde symbolique de Saint Jean (LD 137; Paris: Les Éditions du cerf, 1989), 11–32; Moxnes, Jesus in His Place, 19. 20 chapter one identifying this creative, locative, enterprise of 2 Baruch and to study how it takes shape within the text. On the other hand, the Land is seen as a constant place of redemption, either here and now or as a future promise. Since ‘Israel’ is defined as the group that lives righteously, and the spatial epistemology of the present study gives priority to her praxis, the Land is interpreted as a place of righteousness and thus a good place for Israel.

Hoffman; Center for the Study of Judaism and Christianity in Antiquity 6; Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press, 1986), 139–169; Z. Gurevitch, “The Double Site of Israel,” in Grasping Land: Space and Place in Contemporary Israeli Discourse and Experience (ed. E. Ben-Ari and Y. M. Gafni, Land, Center and Diaspora: Jewish Constructs in Late Antiquity (JSPSup 21; Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1997). 41 I apply the term ‘imagined space’ to express that I see the Land in 2 Baruch as a creative conception and a mental image in text.

S. Hunt, “Apocalypse of Baruch xii–xiv,” in The Oxyrhynchus Papyri III (London, 1903), 4–7. Cf. M. -M. Denis, Apocalypsis henochi graece: fragmenta pseudepigraphorum quae supersunt graeca (PVTG 3; Leiden: Brill, 1970), 118–120; Charles, “Apocalypse of Baruch,” 487–490; Bogaert, Apocalypse de Baruch I, 40. 80 I have followed the edition of Dedering for the text of 2 Bar. 1–77 and the edition of Kmosko for the text of the Epistola Baruch (78–87) (Dedering’s publication of 2 Baruch does not include the Epistola Baruch.

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