B.C. 2348. The Deluge
- Title:
- B.C. 2348. The Deluge
- Alternate Title:
- B.C. 2348. The Deluge
- Collection:
- Persuasive Maps: PJ Mode Collection
- Creator:
- Hall, Sidney
- Other Creators:
- Quin, Edward, 1794-1828; Seeley & Burnside, publishers.
- Date:
- 1836
- Posted Date:
- 2015-08-25
- ID Number:
- 1045.01
- Collection Number:
- 8548
- File Name:
- PJM_1045_01.jpg
- Style/Period:
- 1800 - 1869
- Subject:
- Religion
- Measurement:
- 25 x 29 (centimeters, height x width)
- Notes:
- From the Middle Ages to our own time, the land of Eden - the site of biblical Paradise - has been a continuing subject of study, theological and geographical. See generally Scafi 2006. The pendulum has repeatedly swung from a symbolic reading of the biblical Paradise to a literal one and back again. Ibid. 352. "Mapping paradise [is] one of the most powerful expressions of the fundamental tension between the locative and utopian tendencies in Christianity." Ibid. 153.
The Age of Discovery led in the 17th century to persistent pressure for Christian theology to identify the precise location of Paradise in order to validate the text of Genesis. As Thomas Gale wrote in 1694: "Atheists and scoffers, whom the psalmist call Pests, usually demand, What's become of paradise? Shew us the place in the Maps? And if this be not done for them (they are generally lazy) with all exactness, . . . they will slide into a disbelief first of Genesis, then of the whole bible, and lastly of all revealed religion." (Quoted ibid. 284.) There are more than a dozen such maps in the collection, locating Eden from the Middle East (Iraq, Armenia, Palestine) to Western China, Bristol Florida, Jackson County Missouri, and the North Pole; Search > "Eden."
Quin's Atlas is a chronological series of maps showing ever widening views of the world through "billows of thick, dramatic clouds," revealing over time "the state of knowledge of the earth." Goffert 2003, 346. See also Hall 2016, 76. This is the first plate, showing Eden (in Iraq, at the Persian Gulf) at the time of the Deluge. The clouds that had covered the earth since Creation - 3999 B.C., according to Quin - are parted for the first time, revealing the locations of Eden, "The Garden," Mt. Ararat and the Land of Nod.
Quin's Atlas was first published in 1830; this version is likely from the edition of 1836.
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- Quin, Edward. 1836. An atlas of universal history, in a series of maps of the world as known at different periods : constructed upon an uniform scale, and coloured according to the political changes of each period. London: Seeley & Burnside.
- Cite As:
- P.J. Mode collection of persuasive cartography, #8548. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.
- Repository:
- Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
- Archival Collection:
- P.J. Mode collection of persuasive cartography
- Format:
- Image
- Rights:
- For important information about copyright and use, see http://persuasivemaps.library.cornell.edu/copyright.