![]() Perfect for use with water-soluble markers. Printed on heavy chart paper, and laminated front and back with high quality 3 mil lamination. Size and Lamination Quality of Your Then and Now Bible Map Full color, large Bible wall map for Sunday school or Summer Bible School use, 19.5” x 26”. ![]() Daniel was “kidnapped” as a teenager and was marched 800 miles to Babylon, an ancient city just 50 miles south of today’s Baghdad, the capital of Iraq.Jonah went to Nineveh, what today would be in northern Iraq.The new land was Canaan (Israel area today). God called Abraham to leave his father’s home in Ur and go to a new land.Ruins of Ur are still in Iraq today near the Euphrates River. ![]() They went forth from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan. Genesis 11:31 Terah took Abram his son, Lot the son of Haran, his sons son, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abrams wife. ![]() Abraham lived in Ur, which was the capital of the ancient kingdom of Sumer in Mesopotamia. Genesis 11:28 Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his birth, in Ur of the Chaldees.Some researchers believe it landed in the general area of the mountains of Northern Iraq. Noah’s Ark may have landed on Mount Ararat in today’s country of Turkey.The Garden of Eden may have been in Iraq near the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers.Do You Know Where These Bible Places Are Today? This Bible times wall map is perfect for Bible studies, Sunday school lessons, and homeschool Bible geography curriculum for kids. See Where Bible Places Are Today with the Middle East Then and Now Bible Wall Map This colorful laminated ancient Middle East Bible map enhances Old Testament stories of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Noah, Moses, Daniel, Esther, and more. modern-day maps, they have an “Ah-ha” moment because they realize - perhaps for the first time - these Bible places are real. They explain the geography of the ancient Middle East and Asia vs today’s locations. That’s why Sunday school teachers and Bible study leaders appreciate these Bible maps. Yet many people treat the Bible stories as if they took place in a mythical land. Is that Place in the Bible Real? Yes, most Bible events happened in locations that we can identify today. Judaism got its start here, and from it, Christianity developed a few thousand years later.Īlso known as Classical antiquity, the Classical Age refers to when the Greeks achieved new heights in art, architecture, literature, theater, and philosophy. This period expanded a new maturity in Greece that lasted for roughly 200 years.This large, laminated Middle East: Then and Now Bible Map compares a Bible map of Israel, Egypt, Assyria and Babylonia during Old Testament times-side-by-side with a map of modern-day Middle Eastern countries including Iran, Iraq, Egypt, Turkey, and Israel. The Levant region called the Fertile Crescent saw some of the earliest use of domesticated plants and animals during the Neolithic period and some of the earliest urban sites arose here in Mesopotamia, what is today Iraq. The Levantine corridor-land which connects the continent of Africa to the Levant-was also the main pathway for modern humans to leave Africa, about 150,000 years ago. Stone tools were used to process plants and butcher animals for food. The earliest humans in the Levant made some of the earliest stone tools made by our human ancestors Homo erectus after they left Africa, at a handful of known sites in Israel, Syria, and Jordan some 1.7 million years ago. In antiquity, the southern part of the Levant or Palestine was called Canaan. The Levant is the eastern Mediterranean area now covered by Israel, Lebanon, part of Syria, and western Jordan. Like "Anatolia" or "Orient," "Levant" refers to the area of the rising of the sun, from the perspective of the western Mediterranean. Important cities include Jerusalem, Jericho, Petra, Beersheba, Rabbath-Ammon, Ashkelon, Tyre, and Damascus. The term is often used in reference to the ancient lands in the Old Testament of the Bible (Bronze Age): the kingdoms of Israel, Ammon, Moab, Judah, Edom, and Aram and the Phoenician and Philistine states. Rough boundaries are generally west of the Zagros mountains, south of the Taurus Mountains and north of the Sinai peninsula. Maps of the Levant don't show an absolute boundary, because at no time in the past was it a single political unit. "Levant" or "The Levant" is a geographic term that refers to the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea and the nearby islands.
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