WEDNESDAY, 4 DECEMBER 2024
Location: Zoom, 7:00 PM ET/6:00 PM CT/ 5:00 PM MT/4:00 PM PT
Title: “Mapping the Holy Land: An Illustrated Discussion.”
Speakers: Dr. Neal Asbury, rare map collector, CEO of Legacy Companies, and host of syndicated weekly radio talk show – Neal Asbury’s Made in America; and Dr. Jean-Pierre Isbouts, historian and professor emeritus, Fielding Graduate University.
From the earliest days of the Roman Empire to the current war between Israel and Hamas, mapping the Holy Land has been a never-ending source of high aspirations and bitter conflict. Sacred to Jews, Christians, and Muslims, the Holy Land has always inspired Christians to walk in the footsteps of the Bible, to imagine the route of the Exodus, or discover the places of Jesus’ ministry. Muslims, too, longed to see the geographical contours of the ummah, the greater Muslim community, while Jews remembered the days when Jerusalem was the destination for three holy festivals. In response, cartographers from Late Antiquity to the Modern Age drew their inspiration from Jewish, Christian, and Muslim pilgrimages to depict, with growing confidence, the exotic locations of the Holy Land. Using rarely seen prints, illustrations, and documentation of one of the most mapped locations in the world, Asbury and Isbouts will discuss how understanding 2000 years of the area’s evolution is crucial to ever establishing peace in the region and the ways each faith and era throughout history used the canvas of mapping the Holy Land to express its unique ideas. Their book Mapping the Holy Land: An Illustrated Atlas is available wherever books are sold.
Bios: Dr. Neal Asbury is a global entrepreneur, CEO of The Legacy Companies, and the host of the nationally syndicated weekly radio talk show Neal Asbury’s Made in America, produced by Radio America. He is the coauthor of Mapping America: The Incredible Story and Stunning Hand-Colored Maps and Engravings that Created the United States and the author of Conscientious Equity: An American Entrepreneur’s Solutions to the World’s Greatest Problems. Asbury has received the President’s “E-Star” Export Award and the Export Achievement Award from the U.S. Department of Commerce and was the 2008 recipient of the United States National Champion Exporter of the Year Award. A frequent guest on CNBC, Fox News, MSNBC, and BBC, he has published more than two hundred articles on global trade issues.
Dr. Jean-Pierre Isbouts is a historian, professor emeritus at Fielding Graduate University, and the author or coauthor of multiple books, including Mapping America: The Incredible Story and Stunning Hand-Colored Maps and Engravings that Created the United States, The da Vinci Legacy, The Dalí Legacy, National Geographic’s The Ultimate Visual History of the World, The Biblical World, and In the Footsteps of Jesus, which together have sold over two million copies. Dr. Isbouts has been on numerous radio and TV shows and is the host of several TV series for The Great Courses, including the best-selling The History and Archaeology of the Bible, In the Footsteps of Vincent van Gogh, and Searching for the Historical Jesus. He has also directed several programs for Disney, ABC, Hallmark, and the History Channel, working with actors such as Leonard Nimoy, Charlton Heston, Dick Van Dyke, and Morgan Freeman, and produced recordings with orchestras around the world.
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When: December 4, 2024, 07:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
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