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How The First ‘Bible Map’ Showing Ancient Israel Tribes Shaped The Modern World

The idea of nations as neatly bordered spaces can be traced partly to medieval maps of biblical Israel. In A Nutshell ...

First 'Bible map' published 500 years ago still influences how we think about borders, study suggests

The first Bible to feature a map of the Holy Land was published 500 years ago in 1525. The map was initially printed the ...

How the First Bible to Include a Map Spread the Idea of Borders

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 appeared in Christopher ...
Science Daily

A backwards Bible map that changed the world

Five hundred years ago, a Bible accidentally printed with a backwards map of the Holy Land sparked a revolution in how people imagined geography, borders, and even nationhood. Despite the blunder, the ...
The Advocate

Facets of Faith: Bible Lands Museum/Dead Sea Scrolls

Editor’s note: In May, Pope Francis, head of the Roman Catholic Church, met in Jerusalem with Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, “first among equals” among the various patriarchs of 300 million Eastern ...
Los Angeles Times

E. Borowski, 89; Established Bible Lands Museum With His Collection

JERUSALEM — Elie Borowski, whose vast collection of Middle Eastern artifacts formed the bulk of Jerusalem’s Bible Lands Museum, has died. He was 89. Borowski died Tuesday at his home in Jerusalem, the ...
Hyperallergic

In Jerusalem, a Museum’s Ethics Go Astray

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