THE CONVERSATION — Five hundred years ago, the first Bible featuring a map was published. The anniversary has passed uncelebrated, but it transformed the way that Bibles were produced. The map ...
Lucas Cranach the Elder’s 1525 map is the first ever printed in a bible, but there’s just one problem: it was printed backwards. The document nonetheless stands as a transition point between the ...
The first ever map in the Bible still influences how we think about borders today – despite being printed the wrong way round 500 years ago, a new study reveals. Nathan MacDonald, professor of ...
The legend of the lost tribes grew not because the tribes vanished, but because the biblical record leaves their fate open-ended. Judah’s scribes shaped Israel’s story after the northern kingdom fell, ...
“ And Abram heard that his kinsman had been taken captive, and he armed his trained men, those born in his house, three hundred and eighteen, and he pursued [them] until Dan (Genesis: 14:14).” “ In ...