Why are there so many maps of the Twelve Tribes?

Because the division of Canaan among the tribes in the Book of Joshua gave mapmakers a clear, colourful structure that every Bible reader recognised. It was copied, refined and reissued from the 16th to the 19th century.

Are Holy Land maps accurate?

They are as accurate as Scripture, Josephus and the travellers' reports allowed. Many early maps are oriented with east or west at the top and show places from different periods at once; that is part of their interest.

Chapel I of V

The Holy Land

Maps of Canaan, Palestine and the Twelve Tribes, and plans and views of Jerusalem, from Bünting's woodcut of about 1581 to Blaeu, Jansson, Sanson, De Wit, Homann and the Bible atlases of the 18th and 19th centuries. The strongest part of the collection and the one most collectors start with.

52 prints

By faithChristianity 128 Judaism 116

By dateBefore 1700 24 1700 to 1799 52 1800 to 1849 28 1850 and after 14

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