"'Dividing maps into territories is a novelty in early modern maps, and becomes increasingly common, and today is ubiquitous,' he told the Daily Mail."
"'This map is simultaneously one of publishing's greatest failures and triumphs.'"
"'In the biblical book of Genesis, the Israelites are said to be descended from 12 sons of Jacob, the grandson of Abraham,' Professor MacDonald"
The 1525 fold-out map of the Holy Land in an Old Testament Bible places the Mediterranean to the east of Palestine and portrays a European-looking landscape instead of geographic accuracy. The map was drawn by Lucas Cranach the Elder and published by Christopher Froschauer in Zurich, with very few surviving copies, including one at Trinity College Cambridge's Wren Library. The map divides Israel into the twelve historical tribes, giving it strong symbolic resonance as the inheritance of God's chosen people. The map stimulated a shift toward maps with clearly marked territorial divisions and helped popularize the notion that land could be separated by boundaries.
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