#ReligiousAuthorisation

2025-12-01

Mapping the promised land for God’s chosen people
Imagined lands, biblical narratives and monotheistic practices and beliefs.

* First 'Bible map' published 500 years ago still influences how we think about borders, study suggests
phys.org/news/2025-11-bible-pu

* Assmann, Jan. The Invention of Religion: Faith and Covenant in the Book of Exodus. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2018
press.princeton.edu/books/hard

#territory #maps #borders #expansion #PromisedLand #monotheism #BoundaryMaking #ReligiousAuthorisation #sovereignty #BiblicalLiteralism #GodsWill #christian #fundamentalism #theology #LandClaims #ImaginedCommunity #PlaceNames #SettlerSociety #narratives #GodZone

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