About Bible Atlas AI
Bible Atlas AI helps people explore Scripture through geography: where events happened, how journeys unfolded, and how far apart the places really are.
In the atlas
- 15
- Journeys
- 101
- Places
- 117
- People
- 222
- Events
- 933
- References
About the project
Bible Atlas AI is an independent, non-commercial project. It maps the New Testament’s journeys, places and people carefully, one verified passage at a time, rather than trying to map the whole Bible at once.
How locations are mapped
Each ancient place is matched to a modern location using OpenBible.info’s Bible Geocoding Data, which draws on more than seventy modern atlases, dictionaries, encyclopedias and commentaries, cross-referenced with Pleiades and Wikidata. Every coordinate in the atlas is checked against its source.
Biblical accuracy
The order of stops follows the order the text narrates. When Acts names only a region, or implies a place without naming it, the atlas says so. Lines between stops are schematic: they connect documented stops and do not trace historical roads or sea lanes.
Approximate and debated locations
Ancient geography is not always certain. Every place carries one of five labels:
- Identified site. Scholarly consensus identifies this site.Scholarly consensus identifies this site.
- Probable identification. The leading identification, though alternatives have been proposed.The leading identification, though alternatives have been proposed.
- Traditional site. Located by long-standing tradition rather than firm evidence.Located by long-standing tradition rather than firm evidence.
- Location debated. Scholars propose competing sites; the marker shows one candidate.Scholars propose competing sites; the marker shows one candidate.
- Approximate location. A region or area. The marker is only a representative point.A region or area. The marker is only a representative point.
Bible translation
Scripture is quoted from the World English Bible (WEB), a public-domain translation published by eBible.org. Quotations are reproduced exactly, with book, chapter, verse and translation. Editorial summaries are paraphrases drafted with AI assistance and checked against the cited passages. They are always labelled and never styled as Scripture.
Smart Search
Search combines a fast keyword index with an optional AI model that understands meaning, so “where was Paul shipwrecked?” finds Malta. The model (all-MiniLM-L6-v2, an open-source sentence-embedding model) runs inside your browser. It only ranks entries that already exist in the atlas; it never writes answers, verses or facts of its own.
Privacy
No accounts and no personal information. Searches are processed on your device and are never sent to a server. The map loads tiles from OpenFreeMap, and Smart Search downloads its model from Hugging Face and its runtime from jsDelivr the first time it runs.
Data sources and credits
Bible text: World English Bible (public domain), eBible.org. Places: OpenBible.info Bible Geocoding Data (CC BY 4.0), Pleiades (CC BY 3.0), Wikidata (CC0). Map: OpenFreeMap, OpenMapTiles and OpenStreetMap contributors; relief shading from Natural Earth.
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