What is the best atlas to use in Logos?
What map book shows all the New Testament places quickly and easily? Syrian Phoenicia was hard to find. As was Magadan.
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I don't think there is one. Most display subsets of places. But even several detailed maps need to be reviewed sometimes. And that's ignoring most smaller locations are guesses, all the way back to Eusebius' volume.
is one of the more detailed.
has the locations from a Hellenistic perspective (greek names).
"If myth is ideology in narrative form, then scholarship is myth with footnotes." B. Lincolm 1999.
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You can do a search to see all the maps in your library that show a place
#image EQUALS tag:map AND Magadan2
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I don't think there is one. Most display subsets of places. But even several detailed maps need to be reviewed sometimes. And that's ignoring most smaller locations are guesses, all the way back to Eusebius' volume.
is one of the more detailed.
has the locations from a Hellenistic perspective (greek names).
"If myth is ideology in narrative form, then scholarship is myth with footnotes." B. Lincolm 1999.
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Logos has never had a good atlas where you can right-click a place name in the text and see a relevant map even when you're offline.
You'll probaby need to buy a decent atlas with an index where you can look up the place name and find the one you want, e.g.
Rasmussen, Carl G. Zondervan Atlas of the Bible. Revised Edition. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2010.0 -
Your first named place I will treat in the second part of my response to your questions as it required more specialized snooping to develop an answer.
Magadan is also known as Magdala and I found a nice map in my
I won't bore you with the details of how I managed to find the answer to your other question, the key is knowing the history. Phoenicia at the time of the Roman Era was part of the Syrian province; I found a nice map depicting the relationship in my
BTW, I highly recommend the two fine atlases I featured in my response, the text is highly informative and accurate and the maps are first rate.
Meanwhile, Jesus kept on growing wiser and more mature, and in favor with God and his fellow man.
International Standard Version. (2011). (Lk 2:52). Yorba Linda, CA: ISV Foundation.
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No book could ever beat the old Logos 2.0 Atlas stand alone software. You could choose what cities you wanted to see, in which era, and it would bring it up. You could then click the city and it was linked to a bible dictionary. It was functional and fun to use.
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Honestly, this is an area where Logos could greatly improve.
I wish they would do this again. How helpful that would be! A while go, while reading through Deuteronomy, I wanted to look up the places mentioned in the beginning. And it so incredibly clunky and difficult. It always wants to zoom way way way in, and then you can't see any of the other places. Very disappointing and really makes the tool useless.
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Agreed. Improvement is needed
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I think we have enough 'evidence' to support the proposition, 'FL can't.' I just don't think they can. They're a text/database company that loves 'neato'. It's in their corporate blood (heritage).
- Timelines anyone? Multiple attempts.
- Zoomable imagery, anyone? Earlier, yes.
- Maps? I think 4 tries.
The irony at least for me, is growing up in church-going, imagery was core. Where? When? Looked like?
But not at FL.
"If myth is ideology in narrative form, then scholarship is myth with footnotes." B. Lincolm 1999.
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I guess that ESRI and some universities would be happy to co-operate and develop timeline-atlas with Logos.
As an example
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Honestly, this is an area where Logos could greatly improve.
I am in violent agreement. 🙂
Some of us have been advocating for over a decade for this. As pleased as I am about the new tab panel improvements, I would love to see some serious improvements to mapping, timelines, or text comparison, etc.
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No book could ever beat the old Logos 2.0 Atlas stand alone software. You could choose what cities you wanted to see, in which era, and it would bring it up. You could then click the city and it was linked to a bible dictionary. It was functional and fun to use
I agree. Sadly this has been raised over and over the years, but it appears to not be on the radar.
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You can do a search to see all the maps in your library that show a place
#image EQUALS tag:map AND Magadan2
