Holy Places in Biblical and Extrabiblical Traditions: Proceedings of the Bonn-Leiden-Oxford Colloquium on Biblical Studies

by Megan Daffern, Hywel Clifford, Ian Boxall

English summary: Religion is beyond doubt inseparably connected with questions about holy locations and places. These places gain their meaning not by their physical determination, but by human construction. The contributions of this volume try to shape this phenomenon for selected texts of the Old and New Testament and of Philo of Alexandria. In doing so, they inevitably shed light on central theological issues of these texts. Geographically...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3847105914
• ISBN13: 9783847105916
• Release Date: July 2016
• Publisher: V&R Unipress
• Length: 194 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.3" x 9.2"