Descriptio Terrarum in Quas dispersi sunt Structures Turris Babel. Copperplate map with Hebrew place-names.

BOCHART, SAMUEL.

Caen, first edition 1646, (or later)

Cf. E. & G. Wajntraub, Hebrew Maps of the Holy Land (1992) p. 59, no. 24.

The map depicts the dispersion of the nations following the confusion of languages at the Tower of Babel. The various locations into which the different nations descended from the sons of Noah are shown on the map, with Hebrew and Latin place names. From the Near East, humanity spread to inhabit the entire globe. The work seeks to explain the origins of civilization in antiquity based upon the biblical stories of the flood and Tower of Babel which resulted in the dispersion of nations. Bochart attempted to match the 70 nations mentioned in the biblical account with each ethnic groups of Europe, Africa and Asia.