What
is geobasics? - Geology,
tectonics, erosion and mineralogy greatly shaped the story of the
Bible. How so? In the modern world we seldom think about the effects
of rocks, landforms and soils on our lives, but the ancient world
lived with close attention to these geographical basics, which
form the root of our new release's title, Geobasics
in the Land of the Bible. Geobasics
and Biblical History - Rocks
and their derivatives provide the basic blocks of human life, culture
and history. They provide building materials, tools, systems which
store water and soils for agriculture. They also determine the
paths of streams and roads as well as the locations of cities. When people
settled in villages and cities, each city began its own story. Questions
naturally arise. Why did people congregate here? How did they the
use the surrounding rocks and soils? How could they survive and even
thrive? What communication links do they have with outside areas?
Answers lie in a city’s setting and the region surrounding
it. Indeed, each city reflects the geographical basics of its region,
and these basics in turn greatly impact the city’s story as
well as its place within biblical history. Geobasics provides the
stage of biblical history. Geobasics
in the Land of the Bible is
an exciting, completely new revision of the out-of-print Geographical
Basics in the Land of the Bible. The first edition of
this resource served as a useful tool in advancing a regional
approach to the land. Thousands of students at Jerusalem University
College (fka: American Institute of Holy Land Studies) learned
the basic composition of the land through this tool, and at
the request of many who learned to love the land with the booklet
in hand, Biblical Backgrounds offers this completely revised
edition with twelve full color spreads built on Biblical Background's
unique topographical data of the land.
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