An inexpensive overview of the history of the Bible through maps by National Geographic. An inexpensive magazine I picked up in a checkout line. The maps are great, because they are by National Geographic. Packed full of information, lucid, and, in a way, comforting (because of how many National Geographic maps I've seen over the course of my life). Some of the maps are better than the average ones you'd see in a basic Bible atlas, some are not. The text, however respectful to Judaism and Christianity, is written from a secular, minimalist position. (I found one glaring error in a map. pp. 48-49 is a map of the conquest of Canaan. The key says the northern campaign route is to be marked by a blue line and the southern campaign route is to be marked by a green line, however, the map has the northern campaign in green and the southern in blue.) ( )