The Significance of Locations
For any Christian who has been to Israel, locations in the Bible, and even the distances between them, start to matter in a way they never did before. I’ve been envisioning for some time a world where walking was the main mode of transportation. In this world, how significant is altitude! And yearly rainfall! But let’s just explore altitude for a bit, since yearly rainfall takes more explaining for Israel.
The above is the hill where it’s believed the pigs ran down in Matthew 8:32 & Mark 5:13-17
The Significance of Altitude
The below hill is Gamla, or “camel hump,” where Zealots threw themselves to their death after fighting with the Romans.
Common travel routes were usually in valleys, which were easier to walk along than climbing tiring hills. Look-out posts were on tall hills so they could visually communicate since they didn’t have any other communication means. And vantage points during a war—would you prefer to fight uphill, or down? Would you build a fortress at the bottom of a hill or the top? But where would you find water? And if there was a siege on your fortress, how could you protect your water source from the enemy?
The Significance of a Database on Locations
Would you be more interested if you could easily click to see a map of where that place was that you find in the Bible? If numerous facts about a location were only another click away? If you could easily find the history of a location despite its name changing three times in two different eras? What if you could easily find those five ways a place was spelled due to transliteration differences, frequently found in different maps and Bible versions? This database, Lord willing, will offer significant potential for these things in years to come.
New data for locations from the research database is coming soon!
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I like AI (Artificial Intelligence) improving my pictures in my blogs, although I hope in the future it can improve them more. AI is recent technology & usually the 1st versions of anything improves with time. I never liked pictures of Jesus for a few reasons (i.e. accuracy is only 1 reason), but would like them better if his face was mostly hidden by the angle &/or his clothing. Yet I felt I needed pictures to display what my blogs were about. So I look forward to improving this in time.
So it turned out to be too much this year for my student to get my recent research database available online, we went back to the demo from up-to 2016 research again. Perhaps if I get 1-2 real good student next year it may be within reach now, but I'm content with researching off-line & with hopes my programmer/friend will find time to do it eventually.
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Did you read your Bible lately?
Heather, May 2023
