Author : Stephen C. Russell
Release : 2017-03-06
Genre : Religion
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 203/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Space, Land, Territory, and the Study of the Bible by : Stephen C. Russell
Download or read book Space, Land, Territory, and the Study of the Bible written by Stephen C. Russell. This book was released on 2017-03-06. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.