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I've been working on it some more
check out the places where the patriarchs died
(the names with lines through them)
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Perhaps, as you have plenty of time, make a study of how large a land surface persons whose names are mentioned in the Old Testament moved within.
I suggest you do it this way:
When the name of an Old Testament figure is first mentioned, you determine where he was located, put a dot in your Bible map on the spot where he was physically present.
Do that procedure with the same figure until you have no longer any new locations; then start with another figure, and on and on.
Afterwards when you have finished with all characters whose names are mentioned in the Old Testament, you draw a line connecting all the outer-most dots, and thus you have a slice of Biblical land surrounded by that line linked by dots.
What is the purpose of this exercise?
In order to see the earth surface covered by the characters of the Old Testament.
So?
So, we can wonder what the rest of humans on the earth's surface outside the area bounded by the dotted line were doing, or how they were going about.
So what?
So, we know that the Old Testament God had to limit His reported interactions with humans in the Old Testament times and places to within that surface of the earth bounded by the dotted encircling line, otherwise He would have to write or the authors of the Old Testament would have to write an enormously impossible to complete account of God's activities with mankind.
Location: In a little house on the prairie - literally
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