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I love this book. The best way to describe this book is as a highschool geography book focused on the Bible.
I would recommend this book to anyone studying the Bible and want to understand what life was like for the people they are reading about. I love how it goes into the history and culture of the people groups surrounding Israel.
The book has a vast amount of history to it. The pictures bring the history to life.
I found this book at Mardel's about a year ago and have purchased 2 additionals thru Amazon for gifts. It has outstanding color graphs, charts, and maps of the entire history of the Bible.
The book explains in detail information about the Phillistines, Asyrians, Babylonians, Persians, Greeks, Romans, etc and the roles they played in the shaping of Israel.
easy to find information, well laid out, an excellent partner to the other holman study products.
This book rectifies all of that, in an enjoyable way. But more importantly, I think tying the geographical movements to actual description of those things is fantastic. And yes, there's a wonderful ratio of graphics to words. Most pastors -- let alone laypeople -- couldn't find Moab on a map, or define where Israel is in relation to Assyria or Babylon or Egypt. This was a surprisingly enjoyable book to read. Yes, it has lots of wonderful colorful pictures. There's nothing more helpful, learning-wise, than putting pictures next to words.This book takes you through the earliest days of history, tracing the movement of man's ancestors through Noah to Abraham, and then in detail through the history of Israel.
The only thing I would wish for is more current maps or transparencies to compare today's middle east with that of Biblical times. I have been enjoying reading and looking up locations in those places I read about in the Bible it helps me picture and understand based upon the proximities and cultural information I find there. Good reference all told, though.
The atlas givesa good comparison of texts for visualizations of the lands in earlier times and today.
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