also usually been more interested in time and history than in space and place. (3) Movement in time and space is also movement of people, movement from person to person, from people to people. The Old Testament typically reckons time in genealogies, and the New Testament measures space in journeys. Both are means of measuring by human movement, by contrast with the inhumanly abstract measures the modern world favours. The social or, we could say, numerical movement of the biblical narrative is from