About: Nelson's 3-D Bible Mapbook

Nelson's 3-D Bible Mapbook brings key events, places, journeys, and battles to life with the immediacy of eyewitness news. Unique 3-D maps give you a close-to-the-ground perspective of the action. these, combined with the other full-color maps and chars and fascinating facts, project the entire sweep of Bible history before your eyes. The Exodus, Gideon's night raid, Deborah's victory, the building of the Temple at Jerusalem—no matter which event you study, Nelson's 3-D Bible Mapbook puts you at the heart of the action. Walk the road to Damascus with Paul … drop in on the wedding at Cana … set sail on the Sea of Galilee … join the crowd welcoming Jesus into Jerusalem.

With entries sequenced to match your Bible, routes marked, and key figures and actions explained, you'll understand as never before just how and where it all happened.

With Nelson's 3-D Bible Mapbook, you'll experience Bible events as living action— from and “angel's eye view.” This exciting Bible study companion is perfect for any Bible study group, or for personal use.

From the Introduction:

The Bible is a book about real life. It tells us about a God who transcends our world, but who is also actively involved in it. This is why the Bible can point us to God by telling stories about what actually happened. The people of Israel treasured the stories of the parting of the Red Sea and the defeat of the Egyptians not out of nostalgia or simply because they enjoyed thrillers, but because these stories told them about the God who had saved them.

Many of the Bible's stories are packed with human detail. Who was the father of who, which side of the hill the town was on, how many days it took to get from A to B. The writers clearly knew their way around the country.

All this adds local variety and detail to the Bible's account, though for non-locals (most of us) it can be easy to get lost. Those of us who are foreigners to it all, who would not know whether to turn left or right to reach Bethlehem, need something of a guided tour to help us out.

This book aims to do that. By concentrating on a single event or idea per map it brings to life the significance and the excitement of what was happening. Seemingly obscure details that we thought got in the way of a good story now help to make the story tick as a real, human event.

Apart from the maps, the book also uses graphics generated by computer to give an accurate idea of the climbs and descents involved in some of the biblical accounts. These give an on-the-ground guide to journeys and battles that would be literally flat on an ordinary map.

The maps have been designed to be used alongside an open Bible. Bible passages are referred to in the text for each map, helping us to get over the bumps and around the corners of the story. The book proceeds in biblical book order and each chapter starts with an introduction to the period and details of the maps for the chapter.