The plurality of the “Biblical Land”: development and redevelopment of an archetype

Abstract

The religious “universe” creates spatialities. Therefore, religion and space are two intrinsically related entities. In its genesis, Judaism built a spatiality that has lasted through time and, by extension, through Christianity. As a result of cultural circulation and interaction, several territories emerged around its orbit, which would later become the “Biblical Land”. Such land is our object of study and a homogeneous space for Religion Studies: a system of reference or model capable of assuming the general/particular, centred/uncentred, and universal/singular. We ensure the visibility of this archetype by taking into account synchrony and diachrony, as well as biblical and extra-biblical sources, thus filling the mismatch of terminological and chronological information between some studies.