[AN N EA 10W] - Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam (33 pages long!)
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Lecture 2: jerusalem as religious space: the physical geography. How religions of judaism, christianity, and islam describe and construct jerusalem as religious space: differentiated. Imaginatively figured or sensually encountered locales that are dee(cid:373)ed (cid:373)ore or less (cid:862)spe(cid:272)ial(cid:863), (cid:862)si(cid:374)gular(cid:863) or (cid:862)set apart(cid:863) Fully marked by multisensorial encounters and colored by affective attachments. Trigger or remind home, regions visited, etc. Many factors to why people deem certain spaces significant: kinetic. Historical sources by scribes who were living in the city of jerusalem. Represents perspectives of the elite of jerusalem. Writte(cid:374) to pro(cid:373)ote the ki(cid:374)gs of jerusale(cid:373), te(cid:373)ple of israel"s god (cid:862)yah(cid:449)eh(cid:863), a(cid:374)d the priesthood. Later (cid:272)a(cid:374)o(cid:374)ized as a (cid:272)olle(cid:272)tio(cid:374) (cid:894)toda(cid:455)"s old testa(cid:373)e(cid:374)t(cid:895) Harbor between east and west (mediterranean sea and indian ocean) The fertile crescent: east: assyria, babylonia, southwest: egypt, jerusale(cid:373) i(cid:374) (cid:271)et(cid:449)ee(cid:374) these 2 po(cid:449)erhouse = e(cid:454)pa(cid:374)sio(cid:374) o(cid:374) ri(cid:448)al"s side = travelling/taking over through the international coastal road. Jerusalem actually not on it (near it), east and up on the mountains.
