Western Asia Showing Syria, Palestine, Armenia, Assyria, and Regions of Nineveh, Babylon, Ancient Jerusalem, and Map of the Exodus

All your Biblical geography needs in one place!

This large and brightly colored composition was designed and issued as a teaching aid for juvenile education on Biblical subjects. The primary image presents a simple geographical overview of ancient Western Asia, noting Abraham’s route from Ur of the Chaldees (his presumed birthplace) to Beer-Sheba and further west. Various locations of interest are labeled, mostly according to the Hebrew Bible. Smaller insets show the route of the Exodus, a city plan of Jerusalem, the journeys of St. Paul, Palestine at the time of Christ, and a plan of the Israelites’ Camp – an impressive assortment of religious cartography!

The undated sheet was published around 1930 by A.H. Eilers & Co. as Map Number 4 in the Eilers Sunday School Wall Map Series. The company was originally established in St. Louis during the early 1870s as a bookseller and stationer, but soon transitioned to the production of material related to Sunday School education in the United States. Eilers produced a number of religiously themed materials, including collection envelopes, marriage certificates, ledgers, and wall maps in a variety of sizes and formats.