Dr. Neal Asbury & Dr. Jean-Pierre Isbouts: "Mapping the Holy Land: An Illustrated Discussion"

Presented in partnership with the California, Chicago, New York, Philip Lee Phillips, Rocky Mountain, and Texas Map Societies.

Location: Zoom

Time:  7:00 pm ET/6:00 pm CT/5:00 pm MT/4:00 pm PT

Title: Mapping the Holy Land: An Illustrated Discussion

Speakers:  Dr. Neal Asbury, rare map collector, CEO of Legacy Companies, and host of syndicated weekly radio talk show - Neal Asbury’s Made in America; and Dr. Jean-Pierre Isbouts, historian and professor emeritus, Fielding Graduate University

Summary: From the earliest days of the Roman Empire to the current war between Israel and Hamas, mapping the Holy Land has been a never-ending source of high aspirations and bitter conflict. Sacred to Jews, Christians, and Muslims, the Holy Land has always inspired Christians to walk in the footsteps of the Bible, to imagine the route of the Exodus, or discover the places of Jesus' ministry. Muslims, too, longed to see the geographical contours of the ummah, the greater Muslim community, while Jews remembered the days when Jerusalem was the destination for three holy festivals. In response, cartographers from Late Antiquity to the Modern Age drew their inspiration from Jewish, Christian, and Muslim pilgrimages to depict, with growing confidence, the exotic locations of the Holy Land. Using rarely seen prints, illustrations, and documentation of one of the most mapped locations in the world, Asbury and Isbouts will discuss how understanding 2000 years of the area’s evolution is crucial to ever establishing peace in the region and the ways each faith and era throughout history used the canvas of mapping the Holy Land to express its unique ideas. Their book Mapping the Holy Land: An Illustrated Atlas is available wherever books are sold.

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