Watch the map move as the story unfolds, from the rivers of Eden to the ends of the earth. Turn your sound on.
1
The World of the Old TestamentAbraham, the Exodus, the kingdoms, the exile, the return, and where God's people lived when the prophets fell silent. About 14 minutes.
2
Between the TestamentsFour hundred quiet years: Alexander and the Greek kingdoms, the Septuagint, the Maccabees, Rome, and Herod. About 12 minutes.
3
The World of the New TestamentJesus from Bethlehem to Galilee to the cross and the empty tomb, with his main messages at each stop, how the frightened disciples became bold witnesses, Pentecost, Saul's meeting with Jesus on the Damascus road, Paul's journeys and shipwreck, and the gospel's road from Jerusalem to Rome and the ends of the earth. About 29 minutes.
Dates follow the Bible's own chronology as most conservative scholars reckon it (for example, the Exodus about 1446 BC from 1 Kings 6:1). Part Two also draws on 1 Maccabees, Josephus, and Polybius. The five-point summary of the gospel near the end of Part Three is a summary, not a quotation; the card lists the verses it draws on.
Ancient borders and routes are drawn by hand from standard Bible-atlas reconstructions and are approximate; some places (Mount Sinai, Halah, the Red Sea crossing) have more than one proposed location.
Satellite imagery: Sentinel-2 cloudless by EOX IT Services GmbH (contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2020), CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.
Coastlines: Natural Earth. Empire outlines for Persia, Alexander, the Greek kingdoms, Rome, and Parthia adapted from historical-basemaps (GPL-3.0). Map engine: MapLibre.