Sacred Space Shrine, City, Land
Sacred Space: Shrine, City, Land - a collection of articles that deal with Holy Places from Antiquity to the present; from the lands of the Fertile Crescent to Europe, India, Japan and Mexico; from mountains and seas to temples, cities and countries; from
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Sacred Space Shrine, City, Land Proceedings of the International Conference in Memory of Joshua Prawer
Edited by
Benjamin Z. Kedar and
R. J. Zwi Werblowsky
MACMIlLAN
THE ISRAEL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES
© The Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities 1998 Softcoverreprint of the hardcover 1st edition 1998 All rights reserved. No reproduction, copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written permission. No paragraph of this publication may be reproduced, copied or transmitted save with written permission or in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, or under the terms of any licence permitting limited copying issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency, 90 Tottenham Court Road, London WI P 9HE. Any person who does any unauthorised act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages. The authors have asserted their rights to be identified as the authors of this work in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. First published 1998 by MACMILLAN PRESS LTD Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire R021 6XS and London, and by THE ISRAEL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES Jerusalem
ISBN 978-1-349-14086-2 ISBN 978-1-349-14084-8 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-1-349-14084-8 A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. This book is printed on paper suitable for recycling and made from fully managed and sustained forest sources. 10 9 07 06
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Contents
Preface
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Introduction: Mindscape and Landscape
R.J. Zwi Werblowsky
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Constructing a Small Place Jonathan Z. Smith
18
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A City of Many Temples: Ijattusa, Capital of the Hittites
32
Itamar Singer 4
The Sacred Sea
45
Abraham Malamat 5
Some Biblical Concepts of Sacred Place
55
Sara Japhet 6
The Temple in the Hellenistic Period and in Judaism
73
Doron Mendels 7
The Divinity as Place and Time and the Holy Place in Jewish Mysticism
84
Haviva Pedaya 8
Byzantium's Dual Holy Land
112
Evelyne Patlagean 9
Intellectual Activities in a Holy City: Jerusalem in the Twelfth Century Benjamin Z. Kedar 5
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10 The Harem: A Major Source of Islam's Military Might David Ayalon
140
11 Holy Body, Holy Society: Conflicting Medieval Structural
Conceptions Kenneth R. Stow
151
12 Cities as Cultic Centres in Germany and Italy during the Early and High Middle Ages Alfred Haverkamp
13 Ambivalence and Longing: Vyasa's Curse on KasI
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David Shulman
14 Geotyping Sacred Space: The Case of Mount Hiko in Japan Allan G. Grapard
215
15 The Cult of Santa Maria Tonantzin, Virgin of Guadalupe in Mexico Richard Nebel
250
16 The Muslim Holy Cities as Foci of Islamic Revivalism in the Eighteenth Century Nehemia Levtzion and Gideon Weigert
259
17 Hallowed Land in the Theory and Practice of Modem Nationalism Hedva Ben-Israel
278
18 The Role of Charismatic Dreams in the Creation of Sacred Sites in Present-Day Isra
