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(ISRAEL, LAND OF) Samuel Bochart. Geographiae Sacrae Pars Prior Phaleg Seu De Dispersione Gentium et Terrarum Diviosone Facta in aedificatione turris Babel. Cum Tabula Chorographica, & duplici Indice, 1. Locorum Scripture. 2. Rerum & Verborum. Two parts in one volume. Latin text with occasional use of Hebrew and Greek. Folding maps with Hebrew and Latin place names. pp.(28), 360, (50), 361-864, (92). Lightly browned, trace wormed, title laid down. Contemporary speckled calf, spine with gilt extra, rubbed. Folio. Rohricht 257; See E. & G. Wajntraub, Hebrew Maps of the Holy Land (1992) p.55, no. 22. Cadomi (Caen, Normandy, France): Petri Cardonelli 1651 Samuel Bochart (1599-1667), was a French Protestant Biblical scholar whose Geographia Sacra exerted a profound influence on seventeenth-century Biblical exegesis. The work seeks to explain the origins of civilization in antiquity based upon the Biblical stories of the Flood and Tower of Babel. Bochart attempted to match the 70 nations mentioned in the Biblical account with the respective ethnic groupings found of Europe, Africa and Asia. Samuel Bochart (1599-1667), was a French Protestant Biblical scholar whose Geographia Sacra exerted a profound influence on seventeenth-century Biblical exegesis. The work seeks to explain the origins of civilization in antiquity based upon the Biblical stories of the Flood and Tower of Babel. Bochart attempted to match the 70 nations mentioned in the Biblical account with the respective ethnic groupings found of Europe, Africa and Asia.