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

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

Medieval Christians drawing boundaries around ancient Israelite tribes on Holy Land maps had no idea they were influencing how later mapmakers would depict political power. The post How The First ‘Bible Map’ Showing Ancient Israel Tribes Shaped The Modern World appeared first on Study Finds.

New Study Reveals How Ancient Bible Maps Quietly Shaped Today’s Borders

A new research study shows how ancient Bible maps helped shape the modern idea of national borders. The post New Study Reveals How Ancient Bible Maps Quietly Shaped Today’s Borders appeared first on Geeks Around Globe.

500 year-old ‘Bible map’ reveals how maps reinvented faith and nations

Coloring the world into tidy blocks with sharp edges feels natural today. Nations look solid on a classroom map. But that way of seeing the planet had to be learned, and a surprising teacher helped shape it: the Bible. A new study from the University of Cambridge traces part of our border mindset to maps of the Holy Land tucked into early printed Bibles and atlases. Those drawings did more than guide readers. They quietly trained Europe to think…