Holman Bible Atlas: A Complete Guide to the Expansive Geography of Biblical History

Maps that are easy to read, accompanied by articles that expand the knowledge a student of the Bible can definitely use. Simply beautiful!

Evangelical, not overly historical in nature & -not superficial in dealing with the geographical details. This is my favorite atlas, a mid-level one should be everyone’s first choice. Either this, Zondervan or Moodys Bible atlas as for what’s available now. The Satellite Bible atlas is a really neat resource as well. The satellite images, make the geography much more alive but I still prefer the 3D imaging done in the Holman Atlas. The way other atlases offer the geography aim to focus on communicating the conceptual ideas going on in the geographical details of the Bible—the satellite atlas, wants you to just look at the actual image of the land and point a finger saying “that Bible text, is talking about here..& here, etc” The Sacred Bridge is more precisely a historical-political tome of information accompanied by geographical data and explanations. Yet don’t be mistaken, it deals with ancient biblical sites and tels on a scholarly level. It’s hard for the serious student to not interact with it. The authors approach it with a skeptical opinion of the biblical testimony. They don’t open up the text in relation to geography as much as I might like, they are more concerned with historical/political details & hold views that I don’t share — but nonetheless, no one else has attempted to cover as much ground as they have. They don’t just cover Israel’s national history but they establish the setting of the entire Ancient Near East in which the biblical testimony was born into. There are other atlases that hardly even touch geographical matters but focus on being something like an illustrated commentary—hardly intertwining any geographical or historical explanation. I recommend not buying them. An example of this is the “Rose Atlas Then and Now”

Beautiful maps, photos, timelines, charts, and explanations. High quality paper. Well organized. Contains index of people and places, and index of maps. And yes, it has page numbers, located in the upper middle part of the each page. Enjoy!!!

Great resource. Maps, pics and timelines all very good. Semi glossy pages and decent size font. I recommend.

This book would be better described as a historical/geographical companion to the Bible than a Bible atlas, in my opinion. There's plenty of regional maps but not enough focus on cities of the Bible. THE GOOD - The book is a treasure trove of historical context. Lots of regional maps, timelines, pictures, and descriptions of political context and archaeological knowledge, organized for each general period of the Christian Bible. A lot more text than I expected. THE BAD - Very limited visuals regarding specific cities, even Jerusalem. Perhaps too much recounting what you probably read for yourself in the Bible. I just read Nehemiah 3, which has a detailed account of all the walls and gates that were rebuilt. This book has 10 pages on the "Persian Period" that this falls into and a couple pages devoted to Nehemiah's time, but there's no visual, not even a concept drawing, of what Jerusalem might have looked like at that time. There are a few sentences describing what gate locations are known or probable. I'm disappointed. There's not even a drawing of Jerusalem in the Judah section after Hezekiah's building projects, which we know a decent amount about from archaeology! The only two maps of Jerusalem that I can find in this book are from King David's time and Yeshua's (Jesus's) time, which I feel is insufficient, considering how much information is available out there today.

This is a fascinating book. The maps are outstanding. It helps you see where history in the Bible unfolded and how things would have been situated geographically. I only wish I had picked it up years ago. I highly recommend it.

This has been very well done and a great quality

I really like this atlas, both for the quantity of information and the great full color maps and photographs. For those who mentioned page numbers, they actually are present but easy to miss - they are in the starburst illustration centered at the top of each page.

This books really serves as a top shelf reference to the bible itself, but from a researched perspective it’s composed very well. It’s definitely one that you’ll revisit time and again..

Book is perfect for those who want to get thorough knowledge of maps and charts and other details of bible. PERFECT

Really good atlas. Helped me loads in understanding the bible

zoals ik inmiddels gewend ben van Amazon was het boek beschadigd. =( het is een mooi boek met heel veel kaarten en overzichten. heel duidelijk en uitgebreid

Great atlas, and easy to read, this is a must have for anyone who reads the Bible. It contains full color photographs, timelines, chart summaries, and helpful sidebars, it provides readers with geographical, historical, and cultural information. Nice addition to anyone's personal library.