Errors in Logos Map: Kingdom of Herod the Great
I love these Logos historical maps that are available through the "Biblical Places" feature, but the map tiltled Kingdom of Herod the Great has at least two obvious errors of editing or construction:
1. It places Cyrpus ("a large Island country in the E. Mediterranean") 2 miles south west of Jericho. I'm not aware of a Herodian fortress called "Cyprus".
2. The legend at the top of the map indicates that locations circled in orange on the map are "Cities Salome gave to his sister". It should read "Cities Herod gave to his sister Salome".
I accessed this map through Logos 4 (the Logos 5 version may have been corrected). Since maps don't have a "report typos" feature, I have reported it here.
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Peace, Sam! I accessed this map through Logos 5. It's not Logos that's the problem.... It's this resource: THE HARPERCOLLINS BIBLE DICTIONARY. The map is under the article Herod. Perhaps there was a little village by the name of Cyprus there by Jericho??? I never heard of it before; however, I'm learning new things all the time!!!! *smile* Thanks for sharing! Perhaps Logos will see this thread .... Or, someone else might tell us that there really was such a little village ... Who knows????
Also, Sam, sharp eyes re. the Salome typo! I didn't check that one out!!! *smile*
Philippians 4: 4 Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, Rejoice. 5 Let your reasonableness be known to everyone. The Lord is at hand..........
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Yep. Mea culpa.
Herod did build a fortress called Cyprus, just south of Jericho, named after his mother. From Josephus:
He also built upon another spot of ground above Jericho, of the same name with his mother, a place of great security, and very pleasant for habitation, and called it Cyprus.Antiquities 16.143
Unfortunately the tagging of the location for this fortress in the map in Logos hyperlinks to the description of the island of Cyprus in the Mediterranean.
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Thank you for letting us know about this issue. For future reference, please avoid posting crashes, errors or bugs in the General forum. The best place to post issues like this would be in one of the following forums: Logos 4 Windows , Logos 4 Mac , or Logos 5 .
I have located the correct map, of the same name, with the issues you discovered in the Faithlife Study Bible. I have reported these issues to the correct department.
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Kelly Flones said:
I have reported these issues to the correct department.
Because the incorrect department might complain?[:D]
Dave
===Windows 11 & Android 13
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Today is July 2, 2014 and the error is still there. Anybody can explain it to me?
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Alejandro Medina said:
Today is July 2, 2014 and the error is still there. Anybody can explain it to me?
Two error were mentioned in the above discussion. Not sure which one you mean. If the Harper Collins resource, correction will be up to the publisher of the dead tree version.
I do not have the Harper Collins resource, and could not find the map in the Faithlife Study Bible.
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Jack Caviness said:
I do not have the Harper Collins resource
The HarperCollins dictionary still shows Cyprus below Jericho but - as per Sam's second post above this is valid.
The issue is where Bible Facts incorrectly labels this Cyprus as in the Mediterranean[:)]
Jack Caviness said:and could not find the map in the Faithlife Study Bible.
It is in FSB in the Maps section
Clicking on the map opens "Bible Facts" and - expanded - shows the issue
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Graham Criddle said:Jack Caviness said:
and could not find the map in the Faithlife Study Bible.
It is in FSB in the Maps section
Which just shows how often I use the Faithlife Study Bible [:$]
BTW: Found a link error there which I will report the the FSB forum BUG: Link error (Mac only?)
Graham Criddle said:Clicking on the map opens "Bible Facts" and - expanded - shows the issue
Might be a Mac only error [^o)] Your screenshot does not show the information panel to the left of the map. This is in error in my installation.
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I don't have the referenced maps.
However on my (relatively) new iOS Barrington map, there is indeed a Kypros just before you begin the climb out of the Jordan valley toward Jerusalem (specific to the Herodian/Roman period).
"If myth is ideology in narrative form, then scholarship is myth with footnotes." B. Lincolm 1999.
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Agreed with on that source of all accuracy Wikipedia!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jericho#Classical_antiquity
"was later refortified by Herod the Great, who named it Kypros after his mother."
Shalom Kevin
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