GIS as a heuristic tool to interpret ancient historiography:A case study to reconstruct what could plausibly have happened according to the accounts in New Testament texts

Autor: Jan Krans, Jantien Stoter, Henk Bakker, Vincent van Altena
Přispěvatelé: Faculty of Religion and Theology, CLUE+, Texts and Traditions
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: van Altena, V, Krans, J, Bakker, H & Stoter, J 2021, ' GIS as a heuristic tool to interpret ancient historiography : A case study to reconstruct what could plausibly have happened according to the accounts in New Testament texts ', Transactions in GIS, vol. 25, no. 3, pp. 1193-1212 . https://doi.org/10.1111/tgis.12762
Transactions in GIS, 25(3)
Transactions in GIS, 25(3), 1193-1212. Wiley-Blackwell
Transactions in Gis
ISSN: 1361-1682
DOI: 10.1111/tgis.12762
Popis: © 2021 The Authors. Transactions in GIS published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.This article examines how GIS can be used as a heuristic tool to reconstruct spatial–temporal events from narratives in order to examine whether a scenario is conceivable within the narrative world. The narrative about Paul's escape from Berea (Acts 17:14–15) is used as a case study. Several interpretive issues related to spatial and temporal questions surround these texts. In the case study, three methods are applied: (a) least-cost path analysis on elevation data to construct journeys and travel times for Roman roads; (b) network analysis to find seafaring routes valid for ancient times; and (c) the integration of spatial and temporal data in a space-time cube. Our main finding is that the method yields insights into the spatial–temporal dynamics of the narrative. This helps a modern reader to better understand the narrative conceivability of a story in the mind of a first-century reader.
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