OpenBible.info: Bible Geography Meets Google Earth

The folks at OpenBible.info have done a real service to the Christian community by tagging every identifiable location in the Bible for Google Earth. You can download the KMZ file and explore any place in the Bible. They even give you all of the passages where each location occurs—hyperlinked to the ESV. I love being able to see the places about which I’m reading, and being able to zoom in and interact with them in a 3D environment beats a 2D map or image as far as I’m concerned, though being able to preview and link to these locations in Google Maps is still pretty cool. Here’s an example of all the locations in Galatians. And here’s a neat post that traces the locations in the Bible through six historical periods. Enjoy!

For more info visit:

• OpenBible.info Geocoding
• OpenBible.info Blog

HT: ESV Blog

Update: This blog post gives simple instructions for using the data in Google Earth.

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