Coloring the world into tidy blocks with sharp edges feels natural today. Nations look solid on a classroom map. But that way ...

The idea of nations as neatly bordered spaces can be traced partly to medieval maps of biblical Israel. In A Nutshell ...

The first Bible to feature a map of the Holy Land was published 500 years ago in 1525. The map was initially printed the ...

A backwards 1525 Bible map helped shape modern borders, influencing how we imagine territory, nations, and political space today.

The first Bible to feature a map of the Holy Land was published 500 years ago, in 1525. It still influences how we think ...

The map of the Holy Land in Christopher Froschauer’s 1525 Old Testament has the Mediterranean to the east of Palestine ...

Five hundred years ago, a Bible accidentally printed with a backwards map of the Holy Land sparked a revolution in how people imagined geography, borders, and even nationhood. Despite the blunder, the ...

The rare Froschauer Old Testament survives in only a handful of copies worldwide, including one in Trinity College ...

Professor Nathan MacDonald with Christopher Froschauer's 1525 Old Testament open at Lucas Cranach the Elder’s map of the Holy ...

The Bible is not just one book, but an entire library, with stories, songs, poetry, letters and history, as well as literature that might more obviously qualify as 'religious'. The Christian Bible has ...