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  • Thinking about a World in Motion

  • Edited by Sebastian Sobecki, University of Toronto
  • Book:
    The Cambridge Guide to Global Medieval Travel Writing
    Published online:
    03 October 2025
    Print publication:
    02 October 2025, pp 686-697

  • Summary

    Pre-modern globalism differs substantially from the globalisation of modern eras, in terms of its territorial range, scale, speed, material conditions, technologies, categories of analysis, methods of naming, and implications. Though humans traversing the world on dhows or in caravans might iconise pre-modern globalism to many, early globalism might also not involve travelling humans at all. Globalism may inhere in how a global religion, like Islam, arrives in West Africa, and reshapes local and regional lives, transforming human relations at many levels.

Tanakh Epistemology
  • Knowledge and Power, Religious and Secular
  • Douglas Yoder
  • Published online:
    28 April 2020
    Print publication:
    21 May 2020
  • In this volume, Douglas Yoder uses the tools of modern and postmodern philosophy and biblical criticism to elucidate the epistemology of the Tanakh, the collection of writings that comprise the Hebrew Bible. Despite the conceptual sophistication of the Tanakh, its epistemology has been overlooked in both religious and secular hermeneutics. The concept of revelation, the genre of apocalypse, and critiques of ideology and theory are all found within or derive from epistemic texts of the Tanakh. Yoder examines how philosophers such as Spinoza, Hume, and Kant interacted with such matters. He also explores how the motifs of writing, reading, interpretation, image, and animals, topics that figure prominently in the work of Derrida, Foucault, and Nietzsche, appear also in the Tanakh. An understanding of Tanakh epistemology, he concludes, can lead to new appraisals of religious and secular life throughout the modern world.