Download or read book All the Boundaries of the Land written by Nili Wazana and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2013-11-07 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What are the borders of the Promised Land in the Hebrew Bible? What drives and characterizes the descriptions given of them? The starting point for this research lies in the premise that, despite their detailed geographical nature, the biblical texts are not genuinely geographical documents. They are more appropriately to be understood and examined as literary texts composed in the service of an ideological agenda. In order to comprehend properly the idea of the Promised Land presented in the Hebrew Bible—its definitions, dimensions, and significance—we must understand that the descriptions belong to diverse literary genres, were composed according to various literary devices that require decoding, and that reflect a range of perspectives, outlooks, and notions. All the Boundaries of the Land provides engaging fresh perspectives on the variant views of the Promised Land in the interface between literature, history, geography, and ideology. It does not intend to answer the question of how the borders of the land altered throughout the course of history. The reader will find no maps or outlines in this book. The emphasis is on the literary tools that were employed by the biblical authors who described the borders, and the ideological motives that guided them. Erratum: All the Boundaries of the Land: The Promised Land in Biblical Thought in Light of the Ancient Near East was published with the support of the Israel Science Foundation (ISF). They funded the translation of the book into English and enabled Nili Wazana to make her research accessible to the wider scientific community. The preface to the book mistakenly fails to mention their contribution, thanking instead the Israel Academy of Science. Future editions will acknowledge the author’s gratitude to the Israel Science Foundation.

Download or read book American Boundaries written by Bill Hubbard and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2008-11-15 with total page 469 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For anyone who has looked at a map of the United States and wondered how Texas and Oklahoma got their Panhandles, or flown over the American heartland and marveled at the vast grid spreading out in all directions below, American Boundaries will yield a welcome treasure trove of insight. The first book to chart the country’s growth using the boundary as a political and cultural focus, Bill Hubbard’s masterly narrative begins by explaining how the original thirteen colonies organized their borders and decided that unsettled lands should be held in trust for the common benefit of the people. Hubbard goes on to show—with the help of photographs, diagrams, and hundreds of maps—how the notion evolved that unsettled land should be divided into rectangles and sold to individual farmers, and how this rectangular survey spread outward from its origins in Ohio, with surveyors drawing straight lines across the face of the continent. Mapping how each state came to have its current shape, and how the nation itself formed within its present borders, American Boundaries will provide historians, geographers, and general readers alike with the fascinating story behind those fifty distinctive jigsaw-puzzle pieces that together form the United States.

Download or read book No Dig No Fly No Go written by Mark Monmonier and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-05-15 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some maps help us find our way; others restrict where we go and what we do. These maps control behavior, regulating activities from flying to fishing, prohibiting students from one part of town from being schooled on the other, and banishing certain individuals and industries to the periphery. This restrictive cartography has boomed in recent decades as governments seek regulate activities as diverse as hiking, building a residence, opening a store, locating a chemical plant, or painting your house anything but regulation colors. It is this aspect of mapping—its power to prohibit—that celebrated geographer Mark Monmonier tackles in No Dig, No Fly, No Go. Rooted in ancient Egypt’s need to reestablish property boundaries following the annual retreat of the Nile’s floodwaters, restrictive mapping has been indispensable in settling the American West, claiming slices of Antarctica, protecting fragile ocean fisheries, and keeping sex offenders away from playgrounds. But it has also been used for opprobrium: during one of the darkest moments in American history, cartographic exclusion orders helped send thousands of Japanese Americans to remote detention camps. Tracing the power of prohibitive mapping at multiple levels—from regional to international—and multiple dimensions—from property to cyberspace—Monmonier demonstrates how much boundaries influence our experience—from homeownership and voting to taxation and airline travel. A worthy successor to his critically acclaimed How to Lie with Maps, the book is replete with all of the hallmarks of a Monmonier classic, including the wry observations and witty humor. In the end, Monmonier looks far beyond the lines on the page to observe that mapped boundaries, however persuasive their appearance, are not always as permanent and impermeable as their cartographic lines might suggest. Written for anyone who votes, owns a home, or aspires to be an informed citizen, No Dig, No Fly. No Go will change the way we look at maps forever.

Download or read book All the Boundaries of the Land The Promised Land in Biblical Thought in Light of the Ancient Near East written by Nili Wazana and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Land How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World written by Simon Winchester and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2021-01-19 with total page 525 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the bestselling author Simon Winchester, a human history of land around the world: who mapped it, owned it, stole it, cared for it, fought for it and gave it back.

Download or read book Water Boundaries written by George M. Cole and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 1997-04-04 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Küsten, Seeufer und Flußlinien gehören zu den ältesten, aber auch strittigsten Grenzen der Menschheit: Land und Wasser sind in ständiger Bewegung begriffen. Rechtliche und technische Aspekte bei der präzisen Festlegung gerechtfertiger Grenzen sind in diesem Buch zusammengefaßt, das seine Vollständigkeit zu einem unentbehrlichen Hilfsmittel für Landvermesser, Planer und Juristen macht.

Download or read book Establish Boundaries for National Register Properties written by Bruce MacDougal and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Shore and Sea Boundaries Boundary problems associated with the submerged lands cases and the submerged lands acts including recent developments in the international law of the sea written by Aaron Louis Shalowitz and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Geographical Information in Delimitation Demarcation and Management of International Land Boundaries written by Ron K. Adler and published by IBRU. This book was released on 2001 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Revising Boundaries of Yellowstone National Park written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Public Lands and Surveys and published by . This book was released on 1929 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Law of Boundaries and Fences written by Arthur Joseph Hunt and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Boundaries and Records in the Territory of Early Settlement from Canada to Florida written by Francis Joseph Marschner and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Boundaries of the United States and of the Several States and Territories with an Outline of the History of All Important Changes of Territory written by Henry Gannett and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book The Boundaries of Modern Palestine 1840 1947 written by Gideon Biger and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-08-02 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book to deal with one of the major issues in the Middle East: boundary delimitation. Archive sources are used in order to present the hidden motives and activities, the people involved and the actual process itself.

Download or read book Boundaries of the United States written by Henry Gannett and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: