Verbum Tip 4g: Bible Browser - Biblical Places
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Facet: (Biblical) Places
The discussion of Biblical Places is always best held with a copy of Zev Vilnay’s three volume The Sacred Land by your side.
- Legends of Jerusalem
- Legends of Judea and Samaria: Bethlehem, Hebron, Jericho, Dead Sea, Jaffa, Tel Aviv, Beersheba, Shechem, Sharon, Caesarea
- Legends of Galilee, Jordan, and Sinai
Why? Because the connotation of a place is based on the stories one knows of that place.
Documentation
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Bible Browser
Biblical Place works in the Bible Browser just as Biblical Person works in the Bible Browser, or, in fact, any other simple datatype/Biblical entity.
In the example, selecting People: Abraham à Place: Ur (City) yields 3 pericopes. Note the highlighting in two shades – orange for Abraham and blue for Ur.
“Any” region/place/city … is used for unnamed locations.
Places Abraham Went is easily misunderstood; it covers unspecified places where Abraham went. It is not a list of all places Abraham went.
Interactive
There is no interactive dedicated to Biblical Place although there is the Atlas tool. However, place does figure into some of the interactives:
- Before and After: Biblical Sites is a visualization tool related to place
- Bible Book Explorer
- Key Places
- Biblical Event Navigator
Setting
Places
Miracles of the Bible
Location
Names of God
Places
New Testament Use of the Old Testament
Places (NT)
Places (Source)
Speaking to God
Place
Context Menu and Information Panel
In the Information Panel, the behavior of Place parallels that of Person.
Similarly, the comments on the context menu for Biblical person also apply to Biblical place.
Visual Filter and Factbook
Biblical place is one facet that appears in the Factbook visual filter and therefore requires no user created highlighting palette or visual filter. The visual filter powers the popup on mouse over.
The visual filter powers the Factbook entry on click.
Search
Running the Bible search from the Context Menu yields:
This is a standard Bible entity datatype search.
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