ABSTRACT
This chapter offers a consideration of the spatial maps reflecting cultural memory, implicit to biblical and rabbinic literature. Relating, for example, territories with the identities of their occupants, the lands of Ammon and Edom are where the Ammonite and Edomite peoples lived. Similarly, such a map of Iron Age kingdoms identifies the territory occupied by the clients of a given king, with boundaries ever unstable and disputed. In illustration of such mapping, this article discusses some of the variations, which occur in the use of such rich, complex figures as beyond the river and the lands and tribal allotments of Israel and Judah, including the halakhic land of Judah of rabbinical literature. (This article was first published in J. G. Crossley and J. West (eds.), History, Politics and the Bible from the Iron Age to the Media Age. London: T&T Clark, 2017: 55–71.)
