Yeah, I got a bit behind on the Hanukkah gifts. I apologize for that. As The Leevees' song goes "Geld melts!" so it's not worth savin' them. Here's your next gift:
Jon Berquest and (LHBOTS Editor) Claudia Camp have edited Constructions of Space I: Theory, Geography and Narrative, Vol. 481. You may have seen CSI (as I like to call it) at our booth at AAR/SBL. Well, it won't be ready in the US until January and in the UK until March, but it's worth talking about now, I think.
The Constructions of Ancient Space Seminar ran as a joint project of the AAR and SBL from 2000-2005, the only cross-society venture of its time. For the first time in the development of biblical studies, participants in the seminar attempted to foreground and critically analyze space with the same theoretical nuance that biblical scholars have traditionally devoted to history. Among the noteworthy achievements were applications of different critical spatiality theories to both the traditional historical work of biblical geography and to the analysis of biblical narrative.
This volume begins with five essays that represent some of the seminar’s most important interdisciplinary theoretical work. It then moves to two essays on biblical mapping, considered both as an historical enterprise and from a cultural studies perspective. The volume concludes with two essays that show the interpretive value of critical spatiality theory when used as a lens for reading biblical narrative.
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