Biblical Studies

This fourth edition of the best-selling The Macmillan Bible Atlas brings the latest findings of biblical, historical, and archaeological research to its sweeping cartographic portrayal of biblical history.

Choice Review excerpt: "This atlas was published in England by Lion Hudson as The Lion Atlas of Bible History....The volume includes a large number of maps, charts, photographs, and reconstructions of ancient cities and buildings. The text is written in a clear and succinct style with numerous footnotes to biblical passages. Controversial issues are raised, but always settled in favor of the Bible. This work does not mention the latest chronology based on C14 age-data."

The New Moody Atlas of the Bible...blends the topographical and historical in 118 full color, detailed, and digitized maps of places like Palestine, the Mediterranean, the Near East, the Sinai, and Turkey. Learn of God's protection and guidance by following Israel's forty-year sojourn in the wilderness, and appreciate the results of the Great Commission to 'teach all nations' by seeing the scope of Paul's three missionary journeys.  All of the graphics are brand new, and every page was substantially rewritten, updated, and expanded to bring you more than one hundred thousand words that provide useful commentary throughout. Superior photography, comprehensive geographic detail, award-winning maps, distinctive theological discussion of geographical matters, and thorough documentation in the form of new indexes and 800+ endnotes set this atlas apart.

Traces the course of Near Eastern history from the Chalcolithic Age (c. 3500 BCE) to the defeat of Bar Kochba's fighters and their retreat to the caves east of En-gedi. ... Atlas provides 300 state-of-the-art maps to show as far as possible in terms of modern knowledge the changes and historical processes that affected the lands of the Bible...The Sacred Bridge Carta's Atlas of the Biblical World draws on information from all known ancient sources-Egyptian, Assyrian, Greek, Roman and others to reveal trade routes, economic determinants, and the development of international relations.

Choice Review excerpt: "As much a work of art as a scholarly source, this atlas is the result of a 12-year scholarly effort by almost 150 section editors ("vicars"), compilers, reviewers, and cartographers. Providing topographic detail absent from other classical atlases, this unwieldy folio volume offers 99 detailed color relief maps covering "all regions for which penetration of the Greeks and Romans can be documented," from the Bronze Age to mid-seventh century CE..."

First thing, check the index for the name of the location. This new atlas of the ancient world--Vol. 3 in the supplement series--illustrates the political, economic, social and cultural developments in the ancient Near East, the Mediterranean world, the Byzantine Empire, the Islamic world and the Holy Roman Empire from the 3rd millennium BC until the 15th century AD. The atlas has 170 large color maps that document the main historical developments.