Jerusalem topographical map, showing the hills around Jerusalem – Jerusalem Map from the Hebrew University, Dept of Geography
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Jerusalem topographical map, showing the hills around Jerusalem – Jerusalem Map from the Hebrew University, Dept of Geography
The Educated Traveller 
What is the history and year of this image?
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Hello – the map is from 1928. The art work was by Fr. and R. Stegmiller. It was then printed by Kosel and Pustet in Munich. The map is now in the collection of the Hebrew University, Department of Geography, Jerusalem. I hope this answers your question.
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Sorry for the delay. (Researching too many projects at the same time.) Thank you for your answer, it helps give context to the variety and amount of flora out in the painting by the artist.
For some reason, too many pictures now, real and otherwise, misrepresent the land of ancient Israel (extending it to modern Israel as well.
Nearly every picture I see shows it as some blasted desert wasteland, lacking meaningful grass and shrubs, such as one would currently find in most regions of Saudi Arabia.
It irritates me because it makes little sense when you consider how many people subsisted on agriculture, herds and fishing in the area down through history. It has its own weather cycles which have been well understood by Jews ancient and modern.
Many seem to take the word “wilderness” to mean something like a desert. Americans should know better because we also have wildernesses, but filled with trees. In our early years the term was applied to the tall grasslands of the Great Plains, which supported millions of migrating buffalo very successfully.
As one who’s aware, from many historical documents and images, climate has also varied widely over the millennia, even for geologically brief periods in various local locations, and droughts and famines were common. In America we could look back at the Great Dust Bowl (brought on by a combination of temporary climactic change and inappropriate farming practices for the region), which I believe lasted about 30 years.
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