Bible Atlas, (pdf, 22 MB)
PART I: THE BIBLICAL SETTING
Chapter 1 The Face of the Ancient Near East
Chapter 2 Natural Regions of Palestine
PART II: THE HEBREW BIBLE PERIOD
Chapter 3 Before Abraham
Chapter 4 The World of the Patriarchs
Chapter 5 The Egyptian Experience
Chapter 6 The Exodus
Chapter 7 Conquest and Settlement
Chapter 8 The Kingdom of David and Solomon
Chapter 9 The Kingdoms of Israel and Judah
Chapter 10 Judah Alone amid International Powers
Chapter 11 The Babylonian Exile
Chapter 12 The Persian Period
Chapter 13 The Hellenistic Period
PART III: THE NEW TESTAMENT ERA
Chapter 14 Rome's Emergence as a World Power
Chapter 15 The Romans, Palestine, and Herod the Great
Chapter 16 The World of Jesus
Chapter 17 The Life and Ministry of Jesus
Chapter 19 The First Jewish Revolt
Chapter 20 The Early Christian Church
Almost every reader of the Bible will realize that the Scriptures, from
Genesis to Revelation, contain extensive historical materials and
innumerable allusions to the geographical background of that history.
The geographical references range eastward to the Tigris and
Euphrates and beyond to Media, Elam, and Parthia – from which came
some of those present at Pentecost – and even to India. Including Asia
Minor, Egypt, Ethiopia, and Arabia, they reach westward beyond
Greece and Rome as far as Spain, which Paul visited or hoped to visit,
and where we are probably to find Tarshish, towards which Jonah
started his fateful voyage. Between these limits, the Holy Land itself,
under its various names – Canaan, the land of Israel, or Palestine – with
its immediate neighbors, is at the center of the picture throughout.
It is not surprising, therefore, that an Atlas should be of great help to
every reader of the Bible and particularly every student; but it must be
a historical atlas, not only showing, by maps at the most convenient
scales, the physical geography of the area concerned and of particular
parts of it, but also, by successive maps of the same area, showing the
historical changes which came about through the rise and fall of
empires, the changes in geographical names, the appearance of new
cities and villages and the disappearance of others, and similar
historical developments. Moreover, it cannot be based on the Bible
alone, but must make full use of modern archaeological knowledge
which both illuminates and supplements the Bible text.
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