Abstract:
With recourse to some relevant postmodern sensibilities—especially the pertinence
of peripheries and the value of plurality—this article examines the occurrences
of mountain(s) in Micah with a view to highlighting the tension between
the abstractness of space conceived of with a single center and the complex pluriformity
of places that it overwrites. The work proceeds in two movements: (1) a
syntopic (contra synchronic) reading that builds on the ancient western Asian
worldviews of space, and (2) guided by theories of critical spatiality, a diatopic
(contra diachronic) reading that highlights some peripheral details that contribute
to the Mican vision, paving the way for a “syndiatopic” suggestion.
