Sacred words and worlds
Subtitle: geography, religion, and scholarship, 1550-1700
By: by Zur Shalev
Series: History of Science and Medicine Library -- v. 21; Scientific and learned cultures and their institutions -- v. 2; History of science and medicine library -- v. 21.; History of science and medicine library -- v. 2.
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 319
ISBN-13: 9789004209350
Subjects: Religion and geography; Study and teaching; Bible; Sacred space; History
Other titles: Geography, religion, and scholarship, 1550-1700
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [279]-308) and index.
Table of contents: title: Early modern Geographia Sacra: Themes and approaches; title: The Antwerp polyglot Bible: Maps, scholarship, and exegesis; title: Antiquarian zeal and sacred measurement on the road to Jerusalem; title: The Phoenicians are coming! Samuel Bochart's Protestant geography; title: Putting the Church on the map: Ecclesiastical cartography across the denominational divide; title: Epilogue; title: Appendix: Extant manuscripts of Samuel Bochart.