Space, Land, Territory, and the Study of the Bible

Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-90-04-33991-0
Verlag: Koninklijke Brill BV

Buch, Englisch, 64 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 118 g

Reihe: Brill

In this brief volume, written for professional biblical scholars and graduate students being trained in Bible, Stephen C. Russell introduces the reader to the interdisciplinary study of space and its related concepts, including land, territory, border, frontier, nature, scale, spatial flows, and rhythm. He offers a synopsis of eight approaches to the study of space that have been influential in the humanities and social sciences in recent decades—sacred, legal, political, economic, ecological, visual, social, and urban approaches. He pays special attention to Henri Lefebvre’s treatment of social space as a social product. The volume also briefly notes some of the work being done by biblical scholars in conversation with spatial studies.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Russell, Stephen C.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Bibelwissenschaften

Über Autor(innen)

Stephen C. Russell, Ph.D. (2008), New York University, is Assistant Professor of Ancient History at John Jay College, CUNY. He is author of The King and the Land (Oxford, 2016) and Images of Egypt in Early Biblical Literature (De Gruyter, 2009). His research focuses on the Hebrew Bible and the political, legal, and religious world that produced it.