Book
Basic Biblical geography
Fortress Press • Philadelphia • Published In 1987 • Pages:
By: Baly, Denis.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This book provides important geographical and climatological context for Ancient Israel, partially accounting for documented patterns of subsistence, settlement, and trade, and for its political history.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Identification
- Location
- Climate
- Topography and geology
- Annual cycle
- Pastoral activities
- Tillage
- Cereal agriculture
- Vegetable production
- Arboriculture
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Israelites
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Middle East
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Middle East
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Geographer
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Ian Skoggard; 2020
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1950-1980
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 2000 BC–1980 AD
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Levant
- NotesAdditional notes
- Denis Baly
- Updated ed. of: The geography of the Bible. New and rev. ed. 1974.
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 86045206
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Bible--Geography
- Jews--Civilization--To 70 A.D.
- Palestine--Description and travel