Travel times between biblical places

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

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

Please do inlcude distances.

unknown

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

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

That would be very helpful :)

Anderson Abreu

I want this very much. It will be extremely useful for me.

Bill Shewmaker

This would be a great addition to the software.

Lynden O. Williams

Would love to have this feature

unknown

Having this feature would provide a very valuable piece of information in our study...

Steve

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

Doesn't this belong as a feature of the Atlas rather than as a separate dataset?

unknown

would definitely be helpful

unknown

perhaps as a subset of the Atlas

NichtnurBibelleser

There is a website doing this: https://www.mythoskop.de/#/

unknown

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

YES

charlie

Oh my gosh I would use this so much! This is four years old, so I really hope it gets approved soon.

Paul Long

this is a great idea

NichtnurBibelleser

Look here: https://orbis.stanford.edu/