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What
is geobasics? - Geology,
tectonics, erosion and mineralogy greatly shaped the story of the
Bible. How so? In the modern world we seldom think about the effects
of rocks, landforms and soils on our lives, but the ancient world
lived with close attention to these geographical basics, which
form the root of our new release's title, Geobasics
in the Land of the Bible.
Geobasics
and Biblical History - Rocks
and their derivatives provide the basic blocks of human life, culture
and history. They provide building materials, tools, systems which
store water and soils for agriculture. They also determine the
paths of streams and roads as well as the locations of cities.
When people
settled in villages and cities, each city began its own story. Questions
naturally arise. Why did people congregate here? How did they the
use the surrounding rocks and soils? How could they survive and even
thrive? What communication links do they have with outside areas?
Answers lie in a city’s setting and the region surrounding
it. Indeed, each city reflects the geographical basics of its region,
and these basics in turn greatly impact the city’s story as
well as its place within biblical history. Geobasics provides the
stage of biblical history.
Geobasics
in the Land of the Bible is
an exciting, completely new revision of the out-of-print Geographical
Basics in the Land of the Bible. The first edition of
this resource served as a useful tool in advancing a regional
approach to the land. Thousands of students at Jerusalem University
College (fka: American Institute of Holy Land Studies) learned
the basic composition of the land through this tool, and at
the request of many who learned to love the land with the booklet
in hand, Biblical Backgrounds offers this completely revised
edition with twelve full color spreads built on Biblical Background's
unique topographical data of the land.
Pages
2-3: Northern Arena—rocks and soils map of
Lebanon, Galilee and Bashan
Pages
4-5: Central Arena—rocks and soils map of
Samaria, Ephraim, Judah, Gilead and the Medeba Plateau
Pages
6-7: Southern Arena—rocks and soils map of the Negev,
Southern Highlands, Moab and Edom
Pages 8-9: Lebanon Ranges, Beqaa and Damascus—soils
and detailed relief
Pages 10-11: Galilee, Golan, Jezreel and Lower Gilead—soils and detailed
relief
Pages 12-13: From Baalbek to Petra—full
color rocks and soils map of the entire Land Between
Pages 14-15: Lake Galilee and the Galilean Depression—soils
and detailed relief
Pages 16-17: Sharon, Samaria, Ephraim and Upper Gilead—soils and detailed
relief
Pages 18-19: Philistia, Judah, the Rift and Moab—soils and detailed relief
Pages 20-21: Judah’s Shephelah, Hills and Wilderness—soils and
detailed relief
Pages 22-23: Negev, Southern Highlands and Edom—soils and detailed relief
Geobasics
in the Land of the Bible is
off the press and will be ready for sale on June 1, 2008.
Prices:
$14.95—single copy
$12.95—25-100 copies
$10.95—100+
copies
Geobasics
Downloads—
Geobasics
Guide: The Guide introduces
the features of the book and leads the user through basic
marking
of regional divisions with discussions of geopolitical and
geoeconomic overtones. These are historical facts as well
as fine distinctions of meaning that the biblical writer
assumed his audience understood, but few people today appreciate.
It is true that the biblical message stands loud and clear
without this background, but with it the text and its message
are set once again within a nuanced, living world—and
many shades of meaning, muted with the passage of time, emerge
once again in full color. NB: The Guide is a work
in process; please check this page frequently for updated
versions. The pdf may no look correct on your screen but if you pull it to your desktop and open it in Acrobat Reader it will be appear and print correctly.
Geobasics-JUC
Guide: The Geobasics-JUC
Guide contains
basic markings instructions for Geobasics in the Land
of the Bible, pp. 8-23, which is not yet covered in the larger
Guide discussed above.
It
is a special work dedicated to the needs of the many students
studying at Jerusalem University College in Jerusalem, Israel
during the summer of 2008. The pdf may no look correct on your screen but if you pull it to your desktop and open it in Acrobat Reader it will be appear and print correctly.
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