Space, land, territory, and the study of the Bible / / by Stephen C. Russell.

• Superior document: Brill research perspectives
• Author: Russell, Stephen C.
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden : : Brill,, 2017.
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Series: Brill Research Perspectives.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (viii, 64 pages).
• Notes: Originally published as Volume 1(4) 2016, in Brill Research Perspectives in Biblical Interpretation.

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.

Table of Contents

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 -- Conclusion: interdisciplinary conversations about Space.