Are you familiar with the notion that you are learning and researching and still feeling that something is missing? Something, that can connect all bits of information and be presented in a clearer and simpler way? That’s it! Yesterday I found this thing. You always find the diamonds when you are not searching for them.

Biblewalks.com is a great site that successfully gives an accurate picture on what’s going on in the Holy Land. The site enables anyone to get information on biblical sites (from all periods) and see how they look today. The updated images and the knowledge are surely helping understand the big picture. The bible research is beyond learning from maps and books. The bible is a living body, the art in it is part of the everyday landscape, the source of knowledge is the connection between the past and the present in the holy land…

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.