This is my First Post, which I would like to dedicate it to the one that I see as the Guru of the Geographic data of the Bible, and also the main cause and source of my great interest at Bible Geography which helped me start exploring …
When I was 10 years old I was acquainted with my first Bible Atlas, which was the Carta Bible Atlas. I remember taking this thick and heavy book off my grandpa’s bookshelf, there were so many sketches, drawings, maps, and the truth is that I couldn’t understand anything then, but at the same time I couldn’t take my eyes off it.
When my Grandpa entered the room, and found me browsing confusingly through the pages and sketches, he sat next to me and tried to help organizing the mess a bit. He taught me how to read a map, and made connection between the old bible stories and reality “here is where David came from”, he declared when viewing the Ayalon Valley’s map “Do you see Ur of the Chaldees? This little red dot, here is where Abraham came from”, he had whispered secretly, and something awaken inside of me. As a child I was always in love with Bible stories, but only at my Grandpa’s old apartment, with the Atlas placed on my laps, this love became an endless curiosity and excitement.
Carta Publishing is located at Jerusalem, the center of Bible studies, and continues to publish new books and updated editions of its extraordinary publications which became ‘Must’ to all the bible fans.
Where can I get the Carta Atlas?
Carta Publishing is running an active website, where it is possible to purchase the most up to date editions of it’s publications including the Atlases and books, modern maps of Israel, Jerusalem, field guidebooks for Pilgrims and travelers to the Holy Land, comprehensive Hebrew dictionaries and Hebrew script publications. Carta’s publications appeal to Bible enthusiasts, students and researches.
The real news about Carta’s new website is the Carta Map Bank section. Carta is now making available in digital formats it’s vast Biblical and Historical map collection accumulated through tens of years of research. The website offers the use any of the maps featured in the database in research papers and presentations, in Bible classes, sermons and for other educational purposes.