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Maps of the Bible

Every place named in the Bible as the Orthodox Church reads it, book by book: the Old Testament in the order of the Septuagint, with Tobit, Judith, the Maccabees, Wisdom, Sirach, Baruch and the rest in their places, and the New. 1,370 places in all, each set where its source puts it, and left off the map when no one knows.

A journeyTobit’s JourneyFrom Nineveh across the Zagros to Ecbatane and Rages, stage by stage in the Septuagint.

The Old Testament

The New Testament

Named no place, and so have no map: Prayer of Manasseh, James, 1 John, 2 John, 3 John, Philemon.

Places from OpenBible.info’s Bible Geocoding Data, under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence, and from Pleiades, © the Pleiades contributors, under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 licence. Coastlines, lakes and rivers from Natural Earth; relief from SRTM and ETOPO1 elevation data by way of the AWS Terrain Tiles; all public domain. Scripture and the spellings of names from Brenton’s English translation of the Septuagint (1851), public domain.