If you find that figuring out and visualizing the exact location of an event or place referenced in the Bible has you wishing for a 1000 B.C. version of Google Maps, you’re now in luck. The swath of land along the Mediterranean Sea, where many stories in the Bible take place, has changed hands, names, and borderlines enough times to confuse even the most zealous biblical geographer. However, a new site, featuring an interactive map powered by Google, should help the devout (or merely curious) keep their bearings straight.

biblemap.org features drop-down boxes that allow users to select a book and chapter from the Bible. Once selected, the locations referenced are displayed on an interactive map. Users can then click on the location, which brings up a box that features useful information, like place-name pronunciation (Kadesh-barnea?), and the number of times the location is mentioned in a particular book. Visitors to the site can also choose between text from the King James Version and the English Standard Version.

While this site makes an interesting companion to the Bible, we wish it was expanded to cover other ancient texts as well. We’d love to see Homer’s Illiad and Odyssey get the Google Maps treatment. Still, we’re all for graphical displays of hard-to-explain information, and there’s nothing like Google Maps to make you appreciate just how far everybody walked in those days.

visite website: http://www.biblemap.org/