Atlas Comparison

The Virtual Bible (Enhanced): 3D Recontructions of the Biblical World

• Text Editor: David Lang
• The Virtual Bible Founders: Dan Warner, Jim Strange
• Animator: Joshua Weathers
• Consultant: Leen Ritmeyer
• Over 30 photos and animated videos.

The Virtual Bible provides realistic images as a tool for teaching the Bible in its historical context. Here you’ll find three-dimensional reconstructions of the land of Israel, the city of Jerusalem at the time of Herod, and the town of Capernaum at the time of Jesus. Fly through these reconstructed settings to gain a better understanding of what life was like in ancient times.

(For a look at a video introduction by the founders of The Virtual Bible, see this video.)

Regular Price: $39.90
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The Quest: Revealing the Temple Mount in Jerusalm

• Author: Leen Ritmeyer
• Publisher: Carta, The Israel Map and Publishing Company, Ltd (2006)
• Approximately 422 pages.
• Over 500 maps, photos, illustrations, and more.

No book is better suited to the study, understanding, and development of the manmade plateau that is the focus of the world’s interest—the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. Ritmeyer’s experience as architect of the Temple Mount Excavations following the Six-Day War, coupled with his exploration of parts of the mount now hardly accessible and his doctoral research into the problems of the Temple Mount make him singularly qualified for the task.

Regular Price: $64.90
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Virtual Tour to the Temple

• Publisher: Dr. Randall Price, Th.M., Ph.D.

Ever wanted to visit the Holy Land? Or bring it back with you when you returned? The Virtual Tour to the Temple is a wonderful blend of two types of visual media. First is an interactive 360° tour of the Jerusalem Temple based on 100 high-resolution panoramic photos. The second is 40 short video clips of Dr. Randall Price explaining the historic meaning of each site at the site itself. The result is biblically sound, underpinned by the latest research findings, and fascinatingly beautiful.

Check out this promo video and this blog post for even more information.

Regular Price: $59.90
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The Carta Jerusalem Atlas (3rd Revised & Updated Edition)
Formerly Illustrated Atlas of Jerusalem 

• Authors: Dan Bahat, Chaim T. Rubinstein
• Publisher: Carta, The Israel Map and Publishing Company
• Approximately 148 pages.
• Over 250 maps, photos, illustrations, and more.

Through the lavish use of maps, diagrams, reconstructions, and color photographs, the historical and architectural development of the Holy City unfolds before the reader. Each major period in Jerusalem’s 5,000-year history is dealt with at length and instructively, with information based on the latest archaeological findings and scientific research.

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Carta’s Historical Atlas of Jerusalem: An Illustrated Survey

• Author: Dan Bahat
• Translator: Moshe Aumann
• Publisher: Carta, The Israel Map and Publishing Company, Ltd (2013)
• Approximately 92 pages.
• Over 100 maps, photos, illustrations, and more.

Smaller and older than the above atlas. Successive maps show Jerusalem in every significant epoch from its beginnings in biblical times till today. Texts for each period present the city’s history and discuss contemporary activity and landmarks. Scores of plans, drawings and photographs. Indexed map of modern Jerusalem.

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Jerusalem in the Time of Nehemiah

• Authors: Leen Ritmeyer, Kathleen Ritmeyer
• Publisher: Carta, The Israel Map and Publishing Company, Ltd (2005)
• Approximately 72 pages.
• Over 65 maps, photos, illustrations, and more.

Nehemiah was the great reformer who rallied the people to repair the walls of Jerusalem that were broken down in the Babylonian destruction of 586 B.C. In this book, we are first immersed in the historical background to the time of Nehemiah. Then, in an imaginative reconstruction, one of the builders of the walls (a Tekoite) leads us around the city and shows us the great work accomplished in those stirring times.

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Jerusalem in the Year 30 A. D.

• Authors: Leen & Kathleen Ritmeyer
• Illustrator: Leen Ritmeyer
• Publisher: Carta, The Israel Map and Publishing Company, Ltd (2004)
• Approximately 72 pages.
• Over 70 maps, photos, illustrations, and more.

Open up the world of Jerusalem in the first century with Jerusalem in the Year 30 A.D. The combination of artistic restorations and on-site photographs transport you back almost 2,000 years. See the remains from the period preserved in and around the present-day walls of Jerusalem. Then walk the streets of the city in the time of Jesus with the minutely detailed reconstruction drawings

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The Raging Torrent: Historical Inscriptions from Assyria and Babylonia Relating to Ancient Israel

• Editor: Mordechai Cogan
• Translated and Annotated By: Mordechai Cogan 
• Publisher: Carta, The Israel Map and Publishing Company, Ltd (2008)
• Approximately 236 pages.
• Over 30 maps, photos, illustrations, and charts.

The Raging Torrent brings together all the cuneiform historical texts composed during the 9th to 6th centuries BCE that relate to Ancient Israel. Some of the texts have direct bearing on biblical accounts, but the net has been cast wide, beyond the borders of Ancient Israel, to include texts dealing with Tyre, Damascus, Ashdod, and others. The English translations of the texts have been based on the latest scholarly editions of the original documents; each is accompanied by an introduction and an explanatory note that enable the reader to follow the course of events.

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Echoes from the Past: Hebrew and Cognate Inscriptions from the Biblical Period

• Author: Shmuel Ahituv
• Publisher: Carta, The Israel Map and Publishing Company, Ltd (2008)
• Approximately 488 pages.
• Over 420 maps, photos, illustrations, and more.

This collection of over 220 ancient inscriptions is a rich source of information about the biblical world. It is a collection of Hebrew inscriptions from the First Commonwealth period from the kingdoms around the Jordan River. The inscriptions were written in Hebrew or in languages or dialects similar to Hebrew, thus making them accessible to any reader of Hebrew. Over 220 inscriptions; each is illustrated by a photograph or facsimile, with transcriptions in Hebrew letters.

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The Onomasticon by Eusebius of Caesarea: Palestine in the Fourth Century A.D.

• Author: Eusebius of Caesarea
• Translator: G.S.P. Freeman-Grenville
• Indexed: Rupert L. Chapman III
• Editor: Joan E. Taylor
• Introduction: Joan E. Taylor
• Publisher: Carta, The Israel Map and Publishing Company, Ltd (2003)
• Approximately 184 pages.
• Comparison with table of Bible places but no images.

Here is the first-ever English translation of the ancient Greek Onomasticon by Eusebius of Caesarea, written in the early 4th century A.D. Presented in parallel with Jerome’s Latin rendering of the same work, it provides an alphabetical listing of place names mentioned in the Bible and identified by the author with contemporary sites.

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Understanding Biblical Archaeology: An Introductory Atlas

• Author: Paul H. Wright
• Publisher: Carta, The Israel Map and Publishing Company, Ltd (April 2014)
• Approximately 48 pages.
• Over 77 maps, photos, illustrations, and more.

Many of the places mentioned in the Bible can be seen to this day. Cities like Jerusalem, Hebron, Bethlehem, and Jericho have lasted through the ages. Others like Megiddo, Hazor, and Gezer are attested to by their ruins.

Over one hundred years of scientific archaeology have provided us with greater insight into the lives and customs of the ancient peoples who inhabited the region.

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Understanding the Geography of the Bible: An Introductory Atlas

• Author: Menashe Har-El, Paul H. Wright
• Publisher: Carta, The Israel Map and Publishing Company, Ltd (November 2013)
• Approximately 40 pages.
• Over 55 maps, photos, illustrations, and more.

Richly documented with maps and profusely illustrated, this handsome volume provides a comprehensive view of the geographical background to life in biblical times.

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Understanding Biblical Kingdoms & Empires: An Introductory Atlas & Comparative View

• Author: Paul H. Wright
• Publisher: Carta, The Israel Map and Publishing Company, Ltd (November 2010)
• Approximately 40 pages.
• Over 50 maps, photos, illustrations, and more.

It is the dynamism of these great empires which are focused on through the prism of the Holy Land in this innovative and refreshing book.

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Understanding Great People of the Bible: An Introductory Atlas to Biblical Biography

• Author: Paul H. Wright
• Publisher: Carta, The Israel Map and Publishing Company, Ltd (April 2014)
• Approximately 48 pages.
• Over 65 maps, photos, illustrations, and more.

This work provides a summary of biblical data centered on the lives of some of the greatest characters who walked across the pages of scripture. More importantly, this retelling of various biblical stories weaves into the narrative flow a measure of the landed reality of the ancient Near East and eastern Mediterranean worlds that helps to fill in some of the interpretive gaps that plague all readers of the text.

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Understanding the Old Testament: An Introductory Atlas to the Hebrew Bible

• Author: Baruch Sarel 
• Publisher: Carta, The Israel Map and Publishing Company, Ltd (March 1997) 
• Approximately 40 pages. 
• Over 35 maps, photos, illustrations, charts, and more.

Understanding the Old Testament is a composite introduction to the Hebrew Bible, with illuminating texts, maps, chronologies and charts with a special section on the Hebrew alphabet and calendar. All major empires, battles and events are covered in a pleasing format.

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Understanding the New Testament: An Introductory Atlas

• Author: Paul H. Wright
• Publisher: Carta, The Israel Map and Publishing Company, Ltd (November 2013)
• Approximately 40 pages.
• Over 50 maps, photos, illustrations, charts, and more.

In looking at the world of the New Testament, it is proper to speak of the geographical realities of the first-century world in which the Gospel spread. By learning about these places and the historical interconnections between them, Bible readers can enter more deeply into the pages of the Bible and the divine message that it contains. This volume is a perfect tool for doing just that.

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