Atlas Biblica

The atlas — Hebrew Bible & New Testament

Explore the stories behind the world’s most influential narrative.

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Ways in

Each door opens on the same claims, drawn a different way

The connected world

Nothing here stands alone.

Every line is one claim with one verse behind it.

Jezebelmarried toAhabrode toJezreelheldNaboth’s vineyardbelonged toNaboth

1 Kgs 16:31 · 1 Kgs 18:45 · 1 Kgs 21:1

One path of many · 225 claims in this chapter1 Kings 21

The land

Explore the biblical world through places

The same chapter, on the ground: every place the claims put Ahab, framed to them. Each dot is a coordinate on file, sized by how many rows put him there.

Where the story of Ahab happens All 4 places the claims about Ahab reach, on a map of the world the text moves through, framed to them: Samaria, Jezreel, Carmel Mount, Ramoth. Each dot is a coordinate from the gazetteer, sized by how many rows put Ahab there. The coastline is a modern one, simplified; no border, road or settlement of any period is drawn, and no line joins two points, because the rows state where and not in what order.SamariaJezreelCarmel MountRamoth
Divided MonarchyAll 4 places the claims about Ahab reach

No border, road or modern settlement is drawn at any period, and no line joins two points: the rows state where a claim puts somebody, never in what order they went. Places the text names and no gazetteer locates — Naboth’s vineyard, the palace, the wall — are left off rather than placed, and the page they belong to says so.

Ahab’s page carries this map, and so does every other page whose claims reach a located place — the places index is where they start.

1,000 of the 1,013 named places in the atlas have been matched to a place on the modern map · the other 13 have not, and their pages say so

Timeline

The narrative on one axis

An age is a stretch of the canon, not a date — the span under each name says which books it means. Open one to read the events told there.

CreationGen 1–5FloodGen 6–11PatriarchsGen 12–50ExodusExod – DeutKingdomJosh – 2 ChrExile and ReturnEzra – MalJesusMatt – JohnEarly ChurchActs – Rev
Each age opens the events told in itAn ordering, never a dating

The entrance

The biblical world is larger than you imagine.

Every chapter of the canon has been read once, claim by claim, and every claim carries the verse it came from. Where the text says nothing, the atlas says so rather than filling the gap.

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