Jerusalem as Contested Space in Ezekiel

Exilic Encounters with Emotions, Space, and Identity Politics

By: Natalie Mylonas

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Paperback | 23 January 2025

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Natalie Mylonas uses Ezekiel 16 as a case study in order to reveal the critical relationship between space, emotion, and identity politics in the Hebrew Bible. Drawing on interdisciplinary research that emphasises how space and emotions are inextricably linked in human experience, Mylonas explores the portrayal of Yhwhâs wife, Jerusalem, in Ezekiel 16 as a personified city who feels emotion. She foregrounds purity and gender issues, as well as debates on emotions in the Hebrew Bible, emphasising that spatiality is a key component of how these issues are conceptualised in ancient Israel.

This book argues that the power struggle between Jerusalem and Yhwh in Ezekiel 16 is a struggle over the contested space of Jerusalemâs body and the city space. Jerusalemâs emotions are in a dynamic relationship with the spaces in the text â" they are signified by these spaces, shift as the constitution of the spaces shifts, and are shaped by Jerusalemâs use of space. Her desire, pride, and shamelessness are communicated spatially through her use of city space, while her representation as disgusting is underscored by her âuncontrollableâ female body.

Mylonas concludes by showing how Ezekielâs vision of the new Jerusalem in Ezekiel 40-48 re-establishes sacred space through the erasure of the feminine city metaphor coupled with strict boundary policing, which is a far cry from the assault on Jerusalemâs boundaries described in Ezekiel 16.

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