CROSSWAY

ESV BIBLE ATLAS

JOHN D. CURRID

DAVID P. BARRETT

wheaton, illinois

Crossway ESV Bible Atlas

Copyright © 2010 by Crossway

Text copyright © 2010 by John D. Currid

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Maps by David P. Barrett (www.biblemapper.com)

Illustrations produced by Maltings Partnership (Derby, England) under the direction of Leen Ritmeyer.

Terrain imagery generated from digital elevation data provided by CIAT (A. Jarvis, H. I. Reuter, A. Nelson, E. Guevara, 2006, Hole-filled seamless SRTM data V3, International Centre for Tropical Agriculture [CIAT], available from http://srtm.csi.cgiar.org).

Maps of average monthly temperature and average monthly rainfall for the Near East generated from data provided by UNEP/DEWA/GRID-Europe (http://www.grid.unep.ch/data).

Cover design: Jimi Allen Productions

First printing 2010

Unless otherwise noted, Scripture quotations are from the ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®), copyright © 2001 by Crossway, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers.

Used by permission. All rights reserved.

Scripture references marked RSV are from The Revised Standard Version. Copyright © 1946, 1952, 1971, 1973 by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A.

ISBN-13: 978-1-4335-0192-0

ISBN-10: 1-4335-0192-9

ePub ISBN: 978-1-4335-1914-7

PDf ISBN: 978-1-4335-1912-3

Mobipocket ISBN: 978-1-4335-1913-0

Currid, John D., 1951–

Crossway ESV Bible atlas / John D. Currid and David P. Barrett.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN 978-1-4335-0192-0 (hc)

1. Bible—Geography—Maps. 2. Bible—History of Biblical events—Maps. I. Barrett, David P. II. Title.

G2230.C8 2010

220.9’10223—dc22

2009036660

photograph acknowledgments

Photographs, used by permission, have been provided by the following:

Todd Bolen/BiblePlaces.com: 0-2, 0-3, 0-6, 0-8, 0-11, 0-13, 1-1, 1-3, 1-4, 2-2, 2-3, 2-4, 3-1, 3-2, 3-3, 3-4, 4-1, 4-3, 4-4, 5-1, 5-2, 5-4, 5-5, 5-6, 5-7, 6-1, 6-2, 6-4, 7-1, 7-4, 10-1, 10-2, 12-1, 12-2, 12-4, 12-5, 12-6, 12-9, 12-13, 12-16, 12-17, 12-19 (photos 2-4, 3-1, 5-4, 12-9 courtesy of the Rockefeller Museum) (photos 0-11, 12-6 courtesy of the Istanbul Museum)

John D. Currid: 0-4, 0-7, 0-9, 0-10, 0-12, 0-14, 0-15, 12-3, 12-7, 12-8, 12-10, 12-18

Michael Luddeni: back cover (inscription), 0-1, 2-1, 7-2, 8-1, 9-1

The British Museum: 6-3, 7-3, 7-5, 8-2 (©The Trustees of the British Museum. All rights reserved.)

iStockphoto: cover (pyramid), 1-2, 12-12, 12-14, 12-15

David Bivin/LifeintheHolyLand.com: 0-5, 4-2

The Barry J. Beitzel Photographic Collection: 11-1

Michael Luddeni/Oral Collins: ...