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Biblical Maps: The Secret Weapon to Anchor Your Study of Scripture

December 19, 2020 by Tavis Bohlinger 3 Comments

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I have never visited the frozen northern territory of Siberia, but when reading The Gulag Archipelago I utilized maps of Russia’s vast terrain to try and conceptualize Solzhenitsyn’s scenes of oppression and hopelessness.

I’ve had a similar experience reading Acts when tracing the geographical movements of apostles alongside the written narrative of the Biblical text. Biblical maps are visual anchor points for the imagination.

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