A Complete Guide to the Expansive Geography of Biblical History

HOLMAN

BIBLE ATLAS

Thomas V. Brisco

nashville, tennesee

Holman Bible Atlas

Broadman & Holman Publishers

Nashville, Tennessee 37234

Copyright © 1998 Thomas Brisco

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means.

Atlas maps copyright © 1998 Broadman & Holman Publishers, all rights reserved.

Graphic on page 28 adapted from David C. Hopkins, “Life on the Land: The Subsistent Struggles of Early Israel,” Biblical Archaeologist, vol. 150 #3 (September 1987): 186.

Photo and art credits (All Rights Reserved):

Biblical Illustrator:

27, bottom left; 29 top; 49; 74, bottom; 85; 161, bottom left; 178, top left; 192; 195; 203, bottom left; 209; 260; 266, top right.

British Museum:

57, bottom right; 149

Brisco, Thomas V., Professor of Biblical Backgrounds and Archaeology, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, Fort Worth, Texas 76122:

7, top, bottom; 8; 10; 12; 16; 17, bottom right; 18, top, bottom; 19, bottom right; 21, top, bottom; 22, top left; 23, top right; 25; 27; 29, bottom left; 30, top, bottom; 31; 32; 33 bottom left; 39; 40; 45 top left, bottom right; 47, bottom right; 54, top right, bottom right; 57, bottom right; 60; 63; 65; top left, bottom right; 67; 68, top, bottom; 69; 77; 78; 80; 88; 101; 102; 109, top, bottom; 110; 112, top, bottom; 114, top left, bottom right; 120; 128; 134, top left; 146, top right; 148, bottom left; 149; 190; 201; 202, top, bottom; 203, top right; 204, top, bottom; 205; 210; 213; 215, top left; 217, top, bottom; 219; 221, bottom left; 222, top, bottom; 223; 227, top left; 228; 230, top, bottom; 231; 232, top, bottom; 233; 235, top, bottom; 247; 248, top, bottom; 251; 252, top, bottom; 253, top, bottom; 254, top, bottom; 255, top, bottom; 257; 262, top, bottom; 263; 266, bottom left; 267; 270.

Illustrated World of the Bible Library:

22, bottom; 23 bottom left; 37; 43, top, bottom; 51, top, bottom; 57, top left; 58, top left; 61, top, bottom; 71, bottom left; 74 top; 81; 91; 95; 123; 127; 129; 134, lower right; 142; 146, bottom left; 148, top right; 156; 167, top, middle; 173; 178, bottom right; 181; 215, bottom right; 237.

Latta, Bill:

113; 206; 227, bottom.

Severance, Murray:

167, bottom left.

Tolar, William B.:

5; 265.

University of Chicago:

161, upper right.

All rights reserved.

Unless otherwise stated all Scripture citations are from the Revised Standard Version of the Bible copyright © 1946, 1952, 1971, 1973 by the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A. and used by permission.

ISBN # 1-55819-709-5

Dewey Classification: BIBLE—ATLASES

Dewey Number: 220.91

Library of Congress Cataloging-in Publication Data

Brisco, Thomas C.

Holman Bible atlas / Thomas C. Brisco.

p. cm.

Includes index.

ISBN 1-55819-709-5 (hardcover)

1. Bible—Geography—Maps. I. Title. II. Title: Bible atlas.

G2230.B63 1997 <G&M>

220.9’1’0223—dc21

97–25035

CIP

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