Kregel Bible Atlas

This book was a disappointment. It is written with a very liberal slant. "Millions of years..." along with a couple other comments bothered me. The author, IMO, tries to keep God in a box that people are comfortable with instead of reading the bible and taking what it says as it is. As with any book written by man and not God, you just need to take the good and leave the bad and always cross reference.So... if you have liberal leanings, you won't mind this book, I guess. If you are conservative and take Genesis literally, I think it will bother you, like it did me.

Used for several weeks of our Tapestry of Grace unit year 1. We are in a co-op and this book is used several times. Came in good used condition, as stated.

Summarizes and assists in a better understanding of the Bible. It adds wonderful details and facts. We use this as a reference with our homeschool curriculum.

have great background information to understand the maps.

Fine

I expected a lot from this atlas and was pretty disappointed. For a Kregel publication especially, I didn't expect the author to be so liberal-oriented in his views. He clearly believes in the Bible, which is always a good thing. But on the other hand he has the Israelites crossing the Reed marshes rather than the Red Sea, and he has Matthew and Luke borrowing from the famous "Q" document (for which we have no textual support). So...kind of a bummer in that regard.Nonetheless, it is a useful atlas if you're just wanting the big picture of the Bible narrative from Old Testament to New. However, it's not that great as an exhaustive resource if you're trying to follow in detail most of the stories in the Old Testament. Certain battle scenes are referred to, but the reader has no reference to go to on the map in the vicinity of the author's narrative. Important cities are left off the map (or retained on a map several pages away), and it's just not very helpful.There are some useful cutaways and decent pictures, but nothing you can't live without. I personally recommend Rose Publishing maps (too many to link to) for big picture resources and either the  Zondervan NIV Atlas of the Bible  or the  Crossway ESV Bible Atlas  for more exhaustive reference material. This Kregel atlas just doesn't really fit into a good category.