Samuel Bochart. Geographiae Sacrae Pars Prior Phaleg Seu De Dispersione Gentium et Terrarum Diviosone Facta in aedificatione turris Babel. Cum Tabula Chorographica, & duplici Indice, 1. Locorum Scripture. 2. Rerum & Verborum.

(ISRAEL, LAND OF)

Petri Cardonelli

Cadomi (Caen, Normandy, France)

1651

Two parts in one volume. Latin text with occasional use of Hebrew and Greek. Folding maps with Hebrew and Latin place names.

Rohricht 257; See E. & G. Wajntraub, Hebrew Maps of the Holy Land (1992) p.55, no. 22.

Samuel Bochart (1599-1667), was a French Protestant Biblical scholar whose Geographia Sacra exerted a profound influence on seventeenth-century Biblical exegesis. The work seeks to explain the origins of civilization in antiquity based upon the Biblical stories of the Flood and Tower of Babel. Bochart attempted to match the 70 nations mentioned in the Biblical account with the respective ethnic groupings found of Europe, Africa and Asia.