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Need to catch up on your Bible? Well, you can find a King James
version up on the Web, and no doubt other versions also. But we're interested here in the
translation of words into pictures of beauty and interest. Some of it hand colored
and yet rapidly mass produced, like the N is
for Noah you see below. And some pictures, so influential that it is these very
pictures that define how we picture the Holy Land today. Visit.
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| The mid and late 19th century taught children their Bible
stories through hand colored alphabets and brilliantly colored chromolithographs. Examine
both. |
 | A superb example of one adventurers attempt to be there at Sinai, Bartlett's Forty Days in the Desert, on the Track of the Israelites -
Or a Journey from Cairo to Mount Sinai and Petra. |
| And, an 1870's printing of perhaps the most famous renditions of the Holy Land in modern
times: David Roberts' The Holy Land. |
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