{"id":3,"date":"2007-03-20T21:59:07","date_gmt":"2007-03-21T01:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.openbible.info\/blog\/2007\/03\/plotting-bible-places-over-time\/"},"modified":"2016-02-06T11:40:26","modified_gmt":"2016-02-06T15:40:26","slug":"plotting-bible-places-over-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.openbible.info\/blog\/2007\/03\/plotting-bible-places-over-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Plotting Bible Places over Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A recent post on the Inside Google Book Search blog plots the <a href=\"http:\/\/booksearch.blogspot.com\/2007\/03\/earth-viewed-from-books.html\">locations mentioned in books<\/a> over time. Let\u2019s do the same thing with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.openbible.info\/geo\/\">Bible geocoding data<\/a>. Bible book order corresponds (very) roughly to historical order, so I\u2019ll use books as an approximation for historical periods. The bigger the dot, the more often the books mention the place.<\/p>\n<h3>Genesis to Deuteronomy<\/h3>\n<p>Here you can trace the patriarchs\u2019 and the Israelites\u2019 journeys to lots of places that aren\u2019t the promised land.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/a.openbible.info\/blog\/2007-03-maps-1.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"400\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>Joshua to Ruth<\/h3>\n<p>The conquest and early rule of Canaan.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/a.openbible.info\/blog\/2007-03-maps-2.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"400\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>1 Samuel to Esther<\/h3>\n<p>The rule of the kings and subsequent exile.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/a.openbible.info\/blog\/2007-03-maps-3.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"400\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>Job to Malachi<\/h3>\n<p>These books cover a good period of time, much of it preoccupied with the exile.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/a.openbible.info\/blog\/2007-03-maps-4.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"400\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>Matthew to John<\/h3>\n<p>The gospels focus on the life of Jesus in Palestine.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/a.openbible.info\/blog\/2007-03-maps-5.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"400\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>Acts to Revelation<\/h3>\n<p>The church spreads beyond the Middle East.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/a.openbible.info\/blog\/2007-03-maps-6.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"400\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>Whole Bible<\/h3>\n<p>Here it\u2019s all put together.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/a.openbible.info\/blog\/2007-03-maps-all.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"400\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent post on the Inside Google Book Search blog plots the locations mentioned in books over time. Let\u2019s do the same thing with the Bible geocoding data. Bible book order corresponds (very) roughly to historical order, so I\u2019ll use books as an approximation for historical periods. The bigger the dot, the more often the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.openbible.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.openbible.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.openbible.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.openbible.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.openbible.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.openbible.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1232,"href":"https:\/\/www.openbible.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3\/revisions\/1232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.openbible.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.openbible.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.openbible.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}