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Title Capital cities : urban planning and spiritual dimensions : proceedings of the symposium held on May 27-29, 1996, Jerusalem, Israel / edited by Joan Goodnick Westenholz
Publication Info Jerusalem : Bible Lands Museum Jerusalem, c1998
Location Call Number Status
 Watson Library Stacks  546.35 C17    REQUESTABLE
Description 232 p. : ill. ; 29 cm
Series Bible Lands Museum Jerusalem publications ; no. 2
Contents Preface / Batya Borowski -- Foreword / Joan Goodnick Westenholz -- Royal City and Sacred City in Mesopotamia / Hayim Tadmor -- Jerusalem - A Political and Spiritual Capital / Moshe Weinfeld -- The City of David: The Biblical Concept / Yair Zakovitch -- The Theological Foundation of the City, the Capital City and Babylon / Joan Goodnick Westenholz -- Building a Sacred Capital: Akhenaten, El-Amarna and the "House of the King's Statue" / Ian Shaw -- Hattusa: Home to the Thousand Gods of Hatti / J. David Hawkins -- Birth of a City: Susa / Jean Perrot -- Environmental Factors Affecting Urbanization in Bronze Age Anatolia / Jak Yakar -- Royal Cities in the Kingdom of Israel / John Woodhead -- Planning a Capital: Akhetaten and Akhenaten / Volkmar Fritz -- Piramesses - The Northern Capital: Chariots, Horses and Foreign Gods / Anja Herrold -- The Library at Nineveh / Giovanni B. Lanfranchi -- The Social Landscape of the Capital City: Ur / Marcel Sigrist -- The Mayor of Hattusa and His Duties / Itamar Singer -- The "Antiquarian" Interests of the Neo-Babylonian Kings / David B. Weisberg -- The Portrait of a King / Irit Ziffer -- "The Chosen City": The Selection of Jerusalem as a Capital City / Mordechai Cogan -- Ascending the Mountain of the Lord - A Glimpse into the Solomonic Temple / Victor Avigdor Hurowitz -- Jerusalem on the Eve of Its Destruction / Abraham Malamat
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Subjects Capitals (Cities) -- Middle East -- Congresses
City planning -- Religious aspects -- Congresses
Cities and towns, Ancient -- Middle East -- Congresses
Jerusalem -- Congresses
Additional Authors Westenholz, Joan Goodnick, 1943-2013.
Muzeʼon artsot ha-Miḳra (Jerusalem)
Series Bible Lands Museum Jerusalem publications ; no. 2.
Other Title Urban planning and spiritual dimensions : proceedings of the symposium held on May 27-29, 1996, Jerusalem, Israel
Material Type Conference papers and proceedings.
ISBN 9657027039
OCLC 41523857