One of “Publishing’s Greatest Failures” – How a 500-Year-Old Bible Map Changed History Forever

A new Cambridge study reveals how the first Bible ever printed with a map, released in 1525 with the Holy Land accidentally reversed, ended up transforming far more than biblical illustration. The ...
America Magazine

The fruit of repentance: genuinely good deeds

This Sunday’s Gospel reading offers us the perfect lesson for this second week of Advent. John the Baptist is preaching along ...
Study Finds

How The First ‘Bible Map’ Showing Ancient Israel Tribes Shaped The Modern World

Religious maps from the 1300s showing tribal Israel inadvertently became the blueprint for how later mapmakers drew political ...
Science Daily

A backwards Bible map that changed the world

Five hundred years ago, a Bible accidentally printed with a backwards map of the Holy Land sparked a revolution in how people imagined geography, borders, and even nationhood. Despite the blunder, the ...

How the first Bible to include a map helped spread the idea of countries with borders

The map of the Holy Land in Christopher Froschauer’s 1525 Old Testament has the Mediterranean to the east of Palestine ...
Messenger-Inquirer

Bible sales keep growing, even as many Americans lose their religion

More than 18 million Bibles have been sold in the U.S. this year as part of a five-year boom in Bible sales, highlighted by ...

First 'Bible map' published 500 years ago still influences how we think about borders, study suggests

The first Bible to feature a map of the Holy Land was published 500 years ago in 1525. The map was initially printed the ...
The Christian Century

Bible sales keep growing, even as many in the US lose their religion

Many people in the US may have lost faith in organized religion, but according to recent data, they still love the Good ...