Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea has been repeatedly re-created through the
inscription of its inventory. Ancient Egyptian 'execration texts' defined the landscape of
Egypt's adversaries in the early second millennium BCE, and the place-lists of Egypt's New
Kingdom rulers defined the extent of its imperial domination. Tribal allotments and boundary-
lists define the Biblical Promised Land and pilgrim's itineraries define the sacred geography
of the Christian Holy Land. In modern times, Palestine's (and, later, modern Israel's) deep …