Holy People, Holy Land: A Theological Introduction to the Bible: Michael Dauphinais and Matthew Levering: Grand Rapids: Brazos, 2005. 266 pp. $19.99

2007 ◽  
Vol 64 (1) ◽  
pp. 99-102
Author(s):  
Ira Brent Driggers
Keyword(s):  
Holy Land ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Grand Rapids

JONATHAN EDWARDS IN HIS TIME, AND IN OURS

2004 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 387-398
Author(s):  
DAVID D. HALL
Keyword(s):  
Philosophy Of History ◽  
Jonathan Edwards ◽  
New Haven ◽  
Yale University ◽  
Indiana University ◽  
The Past ◽  
Princeton University ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Grand Rapids ◽  
The World

George M. Marsden, Jonathan Edwards: A Life (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2003)Robert E. Brown, Jonathan Edwards and the Bible (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2002)Avihu Zakai, Jonathan Edwards's Philosophy of History: The Re-enchantment of the World in the Age of Enlightenment (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2003)Amy Plantinga Pauw, “The Supreme Harmony of All”: The Trinitarian Theology of Jonathan Edwards (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2002)We play tricks on the past, but the past also plays tricks on us. We try to fool the past by reconstructing it in our own image, imposing order and significance on the untidy sources we depend upon. The trick the past plays on us is to remain defiantly strange, ever able to expose what it is that our gestures of sympathetic reconstruction have altered, ignored, or suppressed.

Burke O. Long. Imagining the Holy Land: Maps, Models, and Fantasy Travels. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2003. xi, 258 pp.

AJS Review ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 395-398
Author(s):  
Rehav Rubin
Keyword(s):  
American Culture ◽  
Holy Land ◽  
Indiana University ◽  
New Towns ◽  
Promised Land ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Good Book ◽  
Special Place ◽  
Land Of Israel

Many of the pioneers and settlers who came to America held the Bible in their right hands and were strongly inspired by this “Good Book.” They believed they had come to the “New Promised Land,” and consequently gave Biblical names to the new towns and villages, as well as to their children. It was, therefore, almost natural that the remote land in the east, known as the Holy Land, Palestine, the Promised Land, or The Land of Israel, had, and probably still has, a very special place in American culture and society.

Reading Henry Maundrell’s Sacred Geography in Eighteenth-Century England and Germany

2019 ◽  
pp. 210-226
Author(s):  
Simon Mills
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Holy Land ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Late Eighteenth Century ◽  
The World ◽  
Late Eighteenth ◽  
Sacred Geography ◽  
History Of

This chapter explains the remarkable popularity of Henry Maundrell’s A Journey from Aleppo to Jerusalem at Easter AD 1697 (1703). It argues that Maundrell’s eye-witness reportage of his travels in the Holy Land provided the book’s readers with a storehouse of geographical observations and descriptions of eastern customs with which they could recreate imaginatively the world of the Scriptures. Tracing the book’s use by editors, commentators, translators, and paraphrasts, it argues that Maundrell was most often put to work in defence of the Bible against attacks on its claims to truth. Yet in the hands of Maundrell’s late eighteenth-century German translator, the naturalist and historicist tendencies inherent in his account were brought into sharper focus; ‘sacred geography’ was transformed into a history of biblical culture.

Mapping the Word, Reading the World: Biocartography and the “Historical” Jesus

2014 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 447-497
Author(s):  
John D. Thomas
Keyword(s):  
Word Reading ◽  
Holy Land ◽  
Early Nineteenth Century ◽  
Sunday Schools ◽  
Religious Educators ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Biblical History ◽  
Historical Fact ◽  
Gospel Narratives

In the early nineteenth century, the study of “sacred” geography gained traction in American Sunday schools, buoyed by the popular belief that students needed to familiarize themselves with the Holy Land in order to understand the Bible. As religious educators designed geographic curricula, they turned to cartography for assistance and developed map-based lesson plans that would, they hoped, enliven the study of scripture by making visible the spatial layout of ancient Palestine. This article tracks the emergence and widespread use of a particular type of thematic map that featured the life of Jesus superimposed onto the Holy Land, a form of biographical mapmaking that I call “biocartography.” To help students visualize scripture, mapmakers translated the gospel narratives into vectors that crisscrossed Palestine, which meant that they had to overlook the New Testament’s textual discontinuities in order to create a seemingly authentic mosaic of biblical history. Paying close attention to the semiotics of cartography, I explain how biographical circuits that were largely (if not entirely) speculative were regarded as historical fact and how educators who used such maps invented a wide range of cartographic activities to help students comprehend and internalize the Bible’s most salient passages.

Crimes of Reporting: The Unhappy End of a Fact-Finding Mission in the Bible

1994 ◽  
Vol 4 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 135-150 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tamar Liebes
Keyword(s):  
Mass Communication ◽  
Holy Land ◽  
Ideological Position ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Fact Finding

Abstract This article analyzes the famous Biblical account of a group sent by Moses to scout the Holy Land in anticipation of its conquest (Num. 13-14) and focuses on the unhappy ending of the story. It examines three explanations for why the scouts were punished: (a) for adding their opinions to the facts they were supposed to report (editorializing), (b) for insinuating their opinions into the report itself (bias), and (c) for releasing the report to the public rather than funneling it through the leader. The article analyzes not only the story itself but also the story of the story to reveal the narrator's ideological position. (Mass Communication)

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