Space, land, territory, and the study of the Bible
By: by Stephen C. Russell
Series: Biblical interpretation
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2017
Place of publication: Leiden
Language: eng
Number of pages: 64
ISBN-13: 9789004340206; 9789004339910
Subjects: Boundaries; Bibel; Grenze; Bible; Space; Criticism, interpretation; Christianity; Land tenure
Other titles: Originally published as Brill Research Perspectives in Biblical Interpretation. Volume 1, issue 4 2405-7649
Description: 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.
Notes: Originally published as Volume 1(4) 2016, in Brill Research Perspectives in Biblical Interpretation.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 47-64).
Table of contents: title: Introduction: basic concepts in the study of space. Part 1. A map: influential approaches to the study of space ; Part 2. An overlay; important works on the Bible and space ; Part 3. An inset: Naboth's vineyard and the legal approach to space; title: Conclusion: interdisciplinary conversations about Space.