Travel times between biblical places

Sean Boisen
Sean Boisen Member, Logos Employee Posts: 1,452
edited November 20 in English Feedback
Create a dataset showing how long it would have taken in biblical times (especially NT) to travel from point A to B. Include options for sea voyage vs land travel where relevant. This might be comparable to the data behind https://orbis.stanford.edu/ (but for the biblically-relevant subset of places, and not necessarily that kind of interface).
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  • Unknown
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    I often wonder how long it would have taken for some journeys where the Bible is silent on the distance or time it took.
  • Tim Hensler
    Tim Hensler Member Posts: 1,527 ✭✭✭
    Please do inlcude distances.
  • Unknown
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    This is a very interesting suggestion. Actually, I just submitted an article (part of my PhD on spatio-temporal analysis for NT exegesis) on the travel movements of Paul and his companions in Acts 17:14-15 in which I used Least Cost Path Analysis and Network Analysis to estimate the duration and trajectories P & co. could have taken. Sean, if you’d like, we might have some correspondence on this topic?
  • Unknown
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    I'm sure such a thing would take quite a time to put together, but it certainly would be helpful in putting things into perspective.
  • depdad
    depdad Member Posts: 92 ✭✭
    That would be very helpful :)
  • Anderson Abreu
    Anderson Abreu Member Posts: 549 ✭✭✭
    I want this very much. It will be extremely useful for me.

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  • Bill Shewmaker
    Bill Shewmaker Member Posts: 744 ✭✭✭
    This would be a great addition to the software.
  • Lynden O. Williams
    Lynden O. Williams Member, MVP Posts: 8,971 ✭✭✭
    Would love to have this feature 

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  • Unknown
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    Having this feature would provide a very valuable piece of information in our study...
  • Steve
    Steve Member Posts: 15
    I also think this is a great idea. Since travel was both demanding and dangerous during biblical times, travelling on behalf of a church demonstrated the person's love and commitment to that church. Knowing how far someone travelled would bolster one's claim.
  • MJ. Smith
    MJ. Smith Member, MVP Posts: 53,018 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Doesn't this belong as a feature of the Atlas rather than as a separate dataset?

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  • Unknown
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    would definitely be helpful
  • Unknown
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    perhaps as a subset of the Atlas
  • NichtnurBibelleser
    NichtnurBibelleser Member Posts: 269 ✭✭
    There is a website doing this: https://www.mythoskop.de/#/
  • Unknown
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    This would be extremely helpful.  I would like to see the potential travel paths, the distance of each segment and total distance, plus travel time +/-.  I would like to know the names of the ancient roads that comprise each land segment, where applicable.  It would also be great to see the travel each leg of the journey in a way that can be copied to create dynamic presentations of the journey in PowerPoints, etc.
  • Unknown
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    YES
  • charlie
    charlie Member Posts: 34 ✭✭
    Oh my gosh I would use this so much! This is four years old, so I really hope it gets approved soon.
  • Paul Long
    Paul Long Member Posts: 50
    this is a great idea

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