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Of biblical proportions: How maps of the Land of Israel never lost their roots !

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Of biblical proportions: How maps of the Land of Israel never lost their roots Ancient maps collected in the book ‘The Shape of the Land’ reveal that, even after the true geography of Israel was known, Jewish cartographers still looked to the Bible for inspiration By  Yaad Biran |  Nov. 1, 2014 | 12:18 AM Tweet A map of the Land of Israel by Jacob Goldzweig, dating from 1893.   Photo by Wikimedia Commons Text size   Comments (0)   Print Page   Send to friend   Share on Facebook   Share on Twitter   Share RELATED ARTICLES Hiking in Abraham's footsteps, from Turkey to the Holy Land By Moshe Gilad |  Jan. 7, 2014 | 6:11 PM 2,000 years, in the blink of an eye By Oudeh Basharat |  May 12, 2014 | 2:51 AM  |   15 Revealed: What a partitioned Jerusalem would look like By Nir Hasson |  May 27, 2014 | 1:09 PM  |   86 A new Hebrew-language book featuring old Jewish maps of the Land of Israe