Carta's New Century Handbook of the Bible, a concise version of "The Sacred Bridge: Carta's Atlas of the Biblical World

is mean for use by all those who have a love for biblical hisory. College teachers may find it useful for undergraduates alongside to the standard Carta Bible Atlas, which it complements by being more of a historical geography.

Carta's New Century Handbook and Atlas of the Bible also services as a stepping stone to the elaborate scholar's edition, The Sacred Bridge: Carta's Atlas fo the Biblical World itself, where a great deal of material not directily related to biblical hisotry and lands has been discussed in detail in special attention has been paid to citing all available historical sousrces in their orginal languages, sometimes in their original script. With its emphasis on linguistics andsuppoted by a detailed and easy to use bibliography, The Sacred Bridege has been highl priased and enthusiastically received by scholars worldwide.

The object of this concise version is to augment the peronsal Bible study of all who seek a straightforward understanding of biblical history. Nevertheless, the reader will still ahve the sense that sacred history came about in a real world, a realm illumined by a multitude of discoveries and studies during the past two hundred years. Furthermore, the geographical dimension of the Bible accounts is being thoroughly presented. Every student may thus put himself in the ancient reality and feel the events as they were experienced by the ancient Israelites and their neighbors.