Tired of looking at the maps on the back of your bible? Want something more interactive? The folks at OpenBible.info have “geocoded” all the places in the Bible, that is to say they’ve pinpointed the geographical location (longitude/lattitude) of every identifiable place mentioned in the Bible. Here’s how he did it:
The main data source was the Morrish Bible Dictionary, which contains the coordinates for many locations. Other sources were the ISBE, Easton’s, Smith’s, and Nave’s—in other words, all the usual public-domain sources. (The NET Bible folks have helpfully made these works easily accessible.) I consulted in-copyright sources from Logos Bible Software.
The satellite imagery comes from NASA (Blue Marble NG, March) overlaid with shaded relief from the USGS.
Crossway Bibles created and published a comprehensive list of place names in the ESV Bible, which served as the starting point for my work. Thanks also to the Google Earth community who identified about 200 places.
(HT: Justin Taylor)
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