You open your Bible with good intentions, then five minutes later you’re staring at a genealogy that reads like a phone book, wondering how Hezekiah connects to anything you’ve ever heard in church.
Five centuries ago, a single misprinted image in a German Bible quietly rewired how Europeans pictured the world and their ...
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A 500-year “Bible map” still shapes modern borders

The first printed Bible to include a map of the Holy Land appeared roughly 500 years ago, yet its vision of where sacred territory begins and ends still echoes in the way modern borders are drawn and ...
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