The map place

Bible students looking for original 3D-style Bible atlases and Q&A leaders guides have a choice to make.

Lots of choices among Bible atlases, in fact.

• You might want a collection of all the maps in the Causal English Bible archive. It’s here.
• Or all the Q&A leaders guides. It’s here.
• Or maps with just the landscape and no text. We’ve got it.
• Or maps and Q&A guides for individual Bible books. It’s not here. You’re on the wrong page. But here’s a link to the right page, because we’ve got these, too.

Feel the burn, walking uphill

The Casual English Bible wants you to do more than read the stories. We want you to get a feel for them, with the help of our Bible atlases.

Get a picture in your head, for example, of Samson living in the foothills below Jerusalem, and dangerously close to his beloved Philistines lady friends.

Going up the Jerusalem

Did you ever wonder why Bible writers always talked about “going up to Jerusalem” (Matthew 20:17) and never down? Sometimes Jerusalem was at a lower altitude. It sits on a ridge beside the higher Mount of Olives ridge.

Writers may have been showing their respect for this sacred city, home to the only Jewish Temple that existed.

But there was the geographical matter, too. Anyone who wanted to get to Jerusalem had to descend into a valley and then climb Jerusalem’s hillside.