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Canaan as it was possessed both in Abraham and Israels dayes with the stations and bordering nations. The John Speed map of Canaan, formally titled "Canaan as it was possessed both in Abraham and Israels dayes with the stations and bordering nations," is an ancient wall map of the Land of Israel drawn by the English historian and cartographer John Speed in 1595.
For this purpose he hired a young German map maker, Heinrich Kiepert… Through his efforts the maps of ancient Israel were thoroughly revised and improved; modern cartography of the Holy Land begun." [3] [4] The sources for the map of Palestine were set out by Robinson in the introduction to the first volume of the first edition of his work: [5]
The ruins of Beitin, the site of ancient Bethel, during the 19th century. Bethel (Hebrew: בֵּית אֵל, romanized: Bēṯ ʾĒl, "House of El" or "House of God", [1] also transliterated Beth El, Beth-El, Beit El; Greek: Βαιθήλ; Latin: Bethel) was an ancient Israelite city and sacred space that is frequently mentioned in the Hebrew Bible.
It has widely been speculated that, based on location descriptions in the book, that the most plausible historical site for Bethulia is Shechem.Shechem was a large city in the hill-country of Samaria, on the direct road from Jezreel to Jerusalem, lying in the path of the enemy, at the head of an important pass and is a few hours south of Geba.
Capper and others have concluded that ancient Bethany was the site of an almshouse for the poor and a place of care for the sick. There is a hint of association between Bethany and care for the unwell in the Gospels: Mark tells of Simon the Leper 's house there (Mark 14:3–10); Jesus receives urgent word of Lazarus' illness from Bethany (John ...
Founded in 1958, it is the principal publisher of cartographic material in Israel. [2] Carta publishes Israel's national atlas, as well as road maps for motorists, a bilingual gazetteer ( The Toponomasticon: The Book of Geographical Names ) [ 3 ] which uses material from Israel's Survey of Israel geographical database, 1:500,0000 scale maps of ...
In Assyria, the patron god was Ashur, and in ancient Israel, it was Yahweh; however, both Israelite and Assyrian cultures recognized each other's deities during this period. [94] Some scholars have used the Bible as evidence to argue that most of the people alive during the events recounted in the Hebrew Bible, including Moses, were most likely ...
In Search of 'Ancient Israel': A Study in Biblical Origins, Sheffield (JSOT Press, 1992). Davis, Thomas, Shifting sands: the rise and fall of Biblical archaeology (New York: Oxford University Press, 2004). Dever, William G., "Archaeology and the Bible: Understanding their special relationship", in Biblical Archaeology Review 16:3, (May/June 1990)