The geographic horizons of the early Israelites: the table of nations revisited

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English

Bibliographic Citation

The California Geographer 27: 39-74

Notes

In their role as geographers, the Old Testament Israelites have evoked some rather different reactions. As Wright and Filson remarked, ''The Bible is unique among the world's scriptures; it is the only one for whose comprehension the study of historical geography is basic." Indeed, Napoleon found the correlation of document and place so compelling that he had the appropriate scriptures read to him in situ throughout his Palestinian campaign.2 Yet, there are surprising lacunae: as Baly and Tushingham remarked, even the location of sacred Mount Sinai passed from Israel's memory. That fact, of course, reflects long severance from a region which was traversed but never settled; and at least until the Exile and far-flung Dispersion, most Israelite geography remained conspicuously close to home. A tally of identifiable Old Testament place names, however incomplete, indicates that fully 90 percent were located in the "Holy Land" itself.

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The geographic horizons of the early Israelites: the table of nations revisited