Suggestion: Maps for the Atlas tool displaying Jesus' route through gospels and Paul's route throug

It would be great to see some kind of atlas overlay that would show Jesus and his disciples' movements through the gospels.

In addition, it would be intriguing to plot Paul's route (along with his fellow workers) throughout individual epistles as well as across all of his epistles (although, this would no doubt require some editorial decisions due to questions of authorship or dating etc.). Perhaps it would be possible to show how different theories would produce different routes.

Ideally, all incidents would be plotted on one map and would just be numbered/lettered so that each time a place is mentioned, a route or series of places would be plotted out to track progress.

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GaoLu

What a good idea.

Caleb S.

I would also like to see Logos add routes to Atlas. It would help to be able to turn on and off what routes the user would want to see, so that the atlas or maps would not become too busy. I would like to see more detailed maps and routes within Logos.

Alan Palmer (Logos)

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/698867#Comment_698867

I'm not sure if this helps, but routes are included in the individual story maps.

For example, here is "Jesus' Last Trip to Jerusalem, Up to the Triumphal Entry":

DMB

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/699068#Comment_699068

I think Rayner's suggestion has merit, if only to identify why the Logos mapmaker chose the information on the map. I hate to be the Bible class teacher using these maps.

In the example above, I was curious why the route went to Genae. The mouseover mentioned the testy Samarian village (nameless) but presumably on the Samarian border on a main road between Galilee and Jerusalem. However the mouseover didn't mention from whense the story came (obviously the Bible). Nor do any of the mouseovers.

Even Google was hardpressed to understand the selection. But when the Atlas map for the testy Samarian village is brought up (there's 2!), surprisingly the route changed. Now Jesus made a sidetrip over to the Roman camp at Legio. I didn't attempt to determine if the camp even existed in the 20s or for that matter why it might be put there long before any major uprisings at Megiddo (presumably the 2nd century jews would argue that's where Jesus' real dad lived).

Now ironically, the older Logos maps DO identify their point sources (but are reluctant to send Jesus to Legio).

Rayner

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/699068#Comment_699068

I'm not sure if this helps, but routes are included in the individual story maps.

For example, here is "Jesus' Last Trip to Jerusalem, Up to the Triumphal Entry":

Ok, I guess another way of looking at this would be to say "well, it helps a bit". But it would help more were there a second column added next to the individual story map which then listed all of the chapters/verses in scripture that mentioned the journey. Looking at the "Jesus' Last Trip to Jerusalem" story, I've no idea which gospel it's in or whether it's in all of them (and whether the actual route is mentioned in all of them, too), and since I'm tracking my way through a gospel (not an unusual way to read), I'd have to take a guess at the name of every individual story, with nothing but their alphabetical order to help me.

Caleb S.

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/699068#Comment_699068

I'm not sure if this helps, but routes are included in the individual story maps.

For example, here is "Jesus' Last Trip to Jerusalem, Up to the Triumphal Entry":

This is "nice", but it misses a LOT of detail. There are MANY cities nearby (and even the ones He visited) are not even listed on the map. You have to zoom in a LOT in order to get a tiny bit more. That is useless if you want to use Logos Atlas and maps for teaching a class about Yeshua's (Jesus') journey (this is true, of course of the other maps). All one is given is a general overview of the trip. Also, there are no links to the passages that talk about the trip so that a professor or student can do a quick look up and see all the passages that are associated with the journey.

Also going to gripe about the fact that the Atlas is not customizable. There is no way we can add other cities or topographical layovers (we can do all of that and more in Logos' main competitor). What we have in Logos 6 is somewhat better than what we had Logos 4 and 5. I do hope Logos continues to making the Atlas better and better.

Matthew C Jones

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/699287#Comment_699287

I view an atlas as a reference work. If a Gospel or Epistle does not specifically reference a side trip there is no legitimate reason to be adding one to a map for a Bible lesson. Unless, of course, an extra-Biblical source claims a town in the vicinity is known for its fig sodas. Then we can figure Jesus and the disciples took a side trip for a fig soda break. We will look so wise to our students for our creative interpretation. Yes, the theology of creative Bible mapping (afforded in the competition) gets very interesting if you want to stray from the text.

[B] I'll raise a fig soda to adding it to Logos.