Simonis, Johann. Onomasticum Veteris Testamenti sive Tractatus Philologicus [Lexicon of the Old Testament with Philological Treatise]

<<THE CELEBRATED “GRAPE VINE MAP” OF THE HOLY LAND.>> This is one of just a very few pre-19th century Holy Land maps captioned in Hebrew. Its epithet derives from the fact that the Land is covered by a grape-vine in depiction of Psalms 80:9-12, “Thou didst pluck up a vine out of Egypt; Thou didst drive out the nations, and didst plant it. Thou didst clear a place before it, and it took deep root, and filled the land. The mountains were covered with the shadow of it, and the mighty cedars with the boughs thereof. She sent out her branches unto the sea, and her shoots unto the River.” The grape-vine is thus an allusion to the People of Israel, their exodus from Egypt, and their conquest of the Land. E. and G. Wajntraub note that “the vine is a symbol of fertility according to the Prophet Jeremiah 31:5… Although the map is comparatively small in size and compact in execution, much effort was made by its unknown engraver to include all significant places noted in the Old Testament.”