1. “Border” versus “Frontier”

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface vii
4. Abbreviations xi
5. Introduction 1
6. Part 1. Borders and the Concept of the Border in the Bible and Ancient Near East
7. 1. “Border” versus “Frontier” 11
8. 2. Spatial Merisms 58
9. Part 2. The Promised Land
10. 3. The Land Promised to the Patriarchs 85
11. 4. The Promise of World Dominion 97
12. 5. “The Land of Canaan with Its Various Boundaries” Document (Numbers 34:1–12) 127
13. 6. Ezekiel’s Vision of the Ideal Land 167
14. Part 3. The Fulfillment of the Promise
15. 7. The Dimensions of the Land in the “Book of Conquest” (Joshua 1–12) 185
16. 8. “The Land That Yet Remains” (Joshua 13:1–6) 207
17. 9. The “Book of Settlement”: The Land of the Tribal Portions 240
18. 10. The Dimensions of the Land according to Biblical Historiography 277
19. Conclusion 296
20. Bibliography 303
21. Indexes 323