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Advancing New Testament interpretation through spatio‐temporal analysis: Demonstrated by case studies
This article explores, via three case studies, how spatio‐temporal analysis can advance New Testament text interpretation. Acts 2, verse 9 to 11 is the text of study. Case study 1 applies network analysis to data representing the Roman road network constrained by parameters valid for ancient times....
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2018
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6120463/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30197549 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/tgis.12338 |
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author | van Altena, Vincent Bakker, Henk Stoter, Jantien |
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description | This article explores, via three case studies, how spatio‐temporal analysis can advance New Testament text interpretation. Acts 2, verse 9 to 11 is the text of study. Case study 1 applies network analysis to data representing the Roman road network constrained by parameters valid for ancient times. This analysis provided new information on the background of people attending a festival in Jerusalem. Case study 2 located geographical entities from the text in a cartographic visualization and provided supportive information to compare contemporary textual resources. For the disciplines of textual and conjectural criticism (case study 3), spatio‐temporal analysis opens a new window to study what would be the most probable variant of the original text. The case study puts emendations that have been proposed over centuries in a 3D spatial context and provides in this way a sophisticated tool to relate different alternative variants of a specific text. From the case studies, it can be concluded that spatializing, visualizing, and spatially analyzing geographical concepts from the texts in Acts 2 contributes to the field of New Testament interpretation. Further work will elaborate on the findings. |
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spelling | pubmed-61204632018-09-05 Advancing New Testament interpretation through spatio‐temporal analysis: Demonstrated by case studies van Altena, Vincent Bakker, Henk Stoter, Jantien Trans GIS Research Articles This article explores, via three case studies, how spatio‐temporal analysis can advance New Testament text interpretation. Acts 2, verse 9 to 11 is the text of study. Case study 1 applies network analysis to data representing the Roman road network constrained by parameters valid for ancient times. This analysis provided new information on the background of people attending a festival in Jerusalem. Case study 2 located geographical entities from the text in a cartographic visualization and provided supportive information to compare contemporary textual resources. For the disciplines of textual and conjectural criticism (case study 3), spatio‐temporal analysis opens a new window to study what would be the most probable variant of the original text. The case study puts emendations that have been proposed over centuries in a 3D spatial context and provides in this way a sophisticated tool to relate different alternative variants of a specific text. From the case studies, it can be concluded that spatializing, visualizing, and spatially analyzing geographical concepts from the texts in Acts 2 contributes to the field of New Testament interpretation. Further work will elaborate on the findings. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2018-04-29 2018-06 /pmc/articles/PMC6120463/ /pubmed/30197549 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/tgis.12338 Text en © 2018 The Authors. Transactions in GIS published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non‐commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made. |
spellingShingle | Research Articles van Altena, Vincent Bakker, Henk Stoter, Jantien Advancing New Testament interpretation through spatio‐temporal analysis: Demonstrated by case studies |
title | Advancing New Testament interpretation through spatio‐temporal analysis: Demonstrated by case studies |
title_full | Advancing New Testament interpretation through spatio‐temporal analysis: Demonstrated by case studies |
title_fullStr | Advancing New Testament interpretation through spatio‐temporal analysis: Demonstrated by case studies |
title_full_unstemmed | Advancing New Testament interpretation through spatio‐temporal analysis: Demonstrated by case studies |
title_short | Advancing New Testament interpretation through spatio‐temporal analysis: Demonstrated by case studies |
title_sort | advancing new testament interpretation through spatio‐temporal analysis: demonstrated by case studies |
topic | Research Articles |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6120463/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30197549 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/tgis.12338 |
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