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cultural productions, long-term changes and globalizations in the eastern Mediterranean
xvii, 650 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm.
This cross-disciplinary volume makes the case for the Levant as a unit of analysis for the study of cultural production and change over the long-term in the eastern Mediterranean.
A new format for writing the history of the Levant : introduction to the volume / Terje Stordalen and Øystein S. LaBianca -- The region of the Levant and the importance of the local perspective / Terje Stordalen and Øystein S. LaBianca -- Cultural production in the Iron Age southern Levant / Terje Stordalen -- Lenses on accumulative cultural production in the southern Levant : toward a middle range interpretive methodology / Øystein S. LaBianca -- Local power and social discourse : villages in early globalizations of the southern Levant / Terje Stordalen -- Drivers of accumulative cultural production in the southern Levant : the view from Tall Hisban, Jordan / Øystein S. LaBianca and Jeffrey Hudon -- Heshbon in the biblical record : a history of remembering / Terje Stordalen -- Place-making in the Jordanian Madaba Plains : the contested space of Tall Ḥesbān and its village surroundings / Frode F. Jacobsen -- Local dynamics of globalization in the Roman Near East : the case of Palmyra / Eivind Heldaas Seland -- Early forms of Judaism as a mixture of strategies of cultural heterogeneity and the reembedding of local culture in archaic globalization / Diana V. Edelman -- Dynamics of power and the re-inventing of "Israel" in Persian Empire Judah / Kåre Berge -- The production of authority in Levantine scriptural ecologies : an example of accumulative cultural production / Terje Stordalen -- The production of the Constantinian Holy Land / Øyvind Norderval -- The agency of women in curating the Christian Holy Land / Jill E. Marshall -- Local cult, transforming miracles, and global discourses : Saint George in Lydda / Christine Amadou -- The infrastructure of shared sacred sites in Hatay, Turkey : interreligious dynamics of saint veneration in the northern Levant / Jens Kreinath -- Itinerancy in Manichaean networks of the Levant and Egypt / Håkon F. Teigen -- Reconstructing homeland at a time of globalizing change : peasant migration in late medieval Syria / Bethany J. Walker -- Honor, shame, and hospitality : the distribution of power in the premodern Levant / Eveline J. van der Steen -- Concluding reflections. On a way forward for understanding the Levant / Terje Stordalen and Øystein S. LaBianca.
edited by Terje Stordalen and Øystein S. LaBianca.
Includes bibliographical references and index.