Best christian bible atlases according to redditors
We found 47 Reddit comments discussing the best christian bible atlases. We ranked the 17 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the top 20.
We found 47 Reddit comments discussing the best christian bible atlases. We ranked the 17 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the top 20.
I'm going to actively try to avoid recipe books here in my links (that said, that means you're missing out on Vintage Spirits & Forgotten Cocktails, Death & Co, Potions of the Caribbean, and The Joy of Mixology so.... YMMV)
Liquid Intelligence - IMHO must have guide on the technical aspects of bartending. This book is amazing and is the first thing I share with my coworkers that want to broaden their knowledge
The Drunken Botanist - In depth examination of the plants that go into making our favorite drinks, beers, booze, and sundry
Bitters - Has history of bitters, along with instructional on how to make your own.
Shrubs Kind of recipes but also talks about how to make shrubs and good proportions for them, which isn't super common.
Wine Folly Do you want a good intro-to-wine with good, clear reference sheets about styles and pairings? Here's your book
The Wine Bible Want to know way more than you ever thought you wanted to know about wine? This is what you want to be reading.
The Beer Bible - Same as above, but for beer instead of wine.
Holy Smoke! Its Mezcal Mezcal can be hard to pin down and I've found this one to be decent. Includes a table of things that were available in the US at time of publishing and the author's opinions on quality.
Vermouth - pretty in depth history on vermouth, focusing on its place in American cocktail Culture
Imbibe! In depth history of early cocktail culture, focusing on Jerry Thomas and the Bon Vivant's Companion
...I'm sure I could think of more, given the time. I'm trying to just delve into things currently on my shelf, and not in my wishlist.
It's great to have you! The best way to learn is to start drinking a variety of different wines, and once you find something you really like, hone in on that varietal (e.g. Cabernet, Bourdeaux, Pinot Blanc) and become familiar with it. It's so much easier to go from being a journeyman with one kind then broadening your pallette to another. I also highly recommend this book: https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1592408990/ref=mp_s_a_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1518533806&sr=8-2&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_QL65&keywords=wine+tasting&dpPl=1&dpID=51QG%2BsOuFXL&ref=plSrch
It's an excellent and visually appealing way to learn about the vast world of the vine. Some books are far too technocratic, but this one is approachable by a complete novice. The key is to read any and all materials you can get your hands on. Ask a lot of questions. Good luck, and enjoy this lifetime of a trip!
> some religious references to why they took the land
https://www.amazon.com/Daat-Mikra-Bible-Atlas-Comprehensive/dp/9657265118
Here's a book with maps showing each place mentioned in the Bible. No wonder the Uganda Scheme never had a chance.
The ESV Bible Atlas is a pretty good one. Makes a good coffee table book as well.
If you dig that, you'll enjoy this: https://www.amazon.com/Mapping-Boston-Press-Alex-Krieger/dp/0262611732/
Been one of my coffeetable books since forever, and I'm glad to see it's still in print.
[Edit. Oh, and Amazon reminds me I should read https://www.amazon.com/Gaining-Ground-History-Landmaking-Boston/dp/0262534835/ some day.]
I'm new to wine too so I picked up a copy of The Essential Guide to Wine and I've cross referenced it with recommendations of cheap wines. An article I started with was this 150 best wines under $15. I've found some really tasty wines for $8-$10. One that I'm in love with right now is Chops and Burgers which was around $8 a bottle.
> This section, along with the preceding one describing the “stream” rising up to water the ground (2.6), may draw on the ancient tradition that a temple is built on a primal mountain of creation from which the waters of the earth flow. The rivers mentioned here combine world rivers like the Tigris and Euphrates (both in Mesopotamia) with the local Gihon that flowed from Mount Zion in Jerusalem (Ps 46.4; Isa 7.6; Zech 14.8), although Cush is generally either Ethiopia or in Arabia. Pishon is unknown; Havilah is probably in Arabia.
> Where are the ancient centers of civilization according to the Bible? The answer to this is hinted at in the
description of the four rivers emerging from the Garden of Eden. It is natural that the ancients should
believe the rivers of Eden to be those flowing through the lands most abundant in water, the foremost
being the Tigris and the Euphrates in Mesopotamia. The Pishon and the Gihon have not been identified
and may have merely been symbolic. But since Havilah is one of the regions of Cush (Gen. 10:7), it would seem that the two major branches of the Nile (the Blue and the White) may have been intended.
Drink This - Wine Made Simple - Great book for beginners
The Wine Bible
The Essential Scratch and Sniff Guide to Becoming a Wine Expert - Seems like it's a joke, and it sooort of is, but there's some good information there, and the scratch and sniff thing is actually quite useful.
The World Atlas of Wine - Pretty much the ultimate wine book. If you don't want to spend that much on it, consider buying a used copy of the older edition. You can get it for just a few bucks. Obviously it won't be as up to date, but it's still extremely useful.
Pairing Food and Wine for Dummies - John Szabo is legit
Great Wine Made Simple
Up until recently I worked at a book store, these were the books I recommended most frequently to people. If you want ones about specific regions, there are some good ones out there too. These are all more general.
You may be interested in the book Mapping Boston.
http://www.amazon.com/Mapping-Boston-Alex-Krieger/dp/0262611732/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1414183559&sr=8-1&keywords=mapping+boston
Probably an intro book that's not particularly necessary for most folks reading this, but as a newbie myself, I quite enjoyed The Essential Scratch and Sniff Guide to Becoming a Wine Expert that my wife got me as a gift last year.
Hey, I made this infographic several years ago! It's more like a fun guide for exploration of some major wines than a dataset of all the wines there are in the world. I was attempting to make sense of categorizing wines by intensity, primary flavors, and sweetness profile. Since then, we've created a book, which is much more detailed and accurate. Still, this poster is fun to explore!
https://www.amazon.com/Biblica-Social-Historical-Journey-Through/dp/0764160850
My dad gave me this book a few years ago, and I love it. It starts out by painting a picture in your mind about all of the places featuring in the Bible. How the people lived, what the landscape was like, culture, economy, etc.
Then it simply starts with context about Genesis and continues to go through the Bible like that. It's really helpful to me!
I use The Flavor Bible regularly as a cocktail reference. Rather than just looking for pairings with the spirit as an ingredient, try looking for pairings for the flavor profile of the spirit/liqueur. For example, I was in a cocktail competition and knew that I wanted to incorporate Falernum, so I checked through the pairings for lime, ginger, clove and allspice to get a little inspiration. I haven't yet, but it would be fun to take a unique gin and look through the flavor pairings for each of its botanicals.
The other Page and Dornenburg book What to Drink with What You Eat is more focused on drink pairings for food and not so much on looking at what drink components go with what.
Not quite what you're looking for, but Kevin Liu's Craft Cocktails at Home has a very nuanced discussion of balancing drinks and the interactive effect of sweet, sour, bitter, and salty (I'm going to start in on my sub-threshold salting experiments once Graduation weekend (anyone who has worked in a college town will understand) is over).
A book I've seen but not read that you might find interesting is Taste Buds and Molecules: The Art and Science of Food, Wine, and Flavor by Francois Chartier. This is more geared toward wine pairing, it seems, but I believe discusses the molecular explanations for flavor affinities which would likely have some cross-application to cocktails.
Look into becoming a Sommelier
I have The Zondervan Bible Atlas and I really like it.
I bought this book from Amazon last year as a gift for someone who wanted to know more about wine and was just starting to drink it. They loved it and said it was pretty useful.
The Atlas of Beer would be a great gift!
The ESV Bible Atlas is invaluable. Here is a YouTube demonstration of it in action!
The Atlas Daas Mikra is your friend here. Seriously, it's a great (arguably essential) tool when learning Tanach.
How to Read the Jewish Bible by Marc Zvi Brettler, originally published as How to Read the Bible. Great introduction to the Hebrew Bible. And Bart Ehrman's Great Courses series on the New Testament, which you can get on sale right now in this set.
Some useful references:
> I do decant my wine, but also sometimes use the magic decanter to see the difference in taste. Are the magic decanters frowned upon here?
I had to google this because they are marketed differently here and not called magic decanters. But I have used them when I used to work behind tasting bars. They do a little bit of aerating in my opinion, but I tend to just go with the old fashioned decanter. It's all personal preference.
> If there's any popular books you know of which are easy to read (i.e. more for beginners) then please let me know.
Are you thinking of just tasting books, to help you get in the swing of things? If so, here are a few:
These are good starter books. Once you get the hang of it, invest in the Oxford Companion or other lovely tomes that may be a bit dense at the moment.
http://www.amazon.com/Wine-Tasting-Course-Marnie-Old/dp/1465405887
If you need visuals to learn easily, this is really good.
I would love this as well because I'm geeky like that. Books that I found interesting that you might as well:
-The Comic Book Story of Beer: A fun way to learn more about the history of beer as beverage. It goes into I'd say a medium amount of detail, enough that if you wanted to go deeper you'd have the right search terms. Plus it's a comic book...bonus! Amazon link: https://www.amazon.com/Comic-Book-Story-Beer-Revolution/dp/1607746352
-National Geographic Atlas of Beer: Another medium level detail book about beer all over the world for a more global perspective plus it's National Geographic so the photography is gorgeous. Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/National-Geographic-Atlas-Beer-Globe-Trotting/dp/1426218338/
-Radical Brewing: Even if you don't homebrew I feel like this book is worth picking up, especially early on in your beer journey because it gives you an idea of what wide range of styles and ingredients can make up a "Beer" (with a capital B). Also, it's a good introduction to Randy Mosher who is a Beer Geek (with a capital B and a capital G). Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Radical-Brewing-Recipes-World-Altering-Meditations/dp/0937381837
If anyone has any other books along the same lines they enjoy, feel free to share them.
Cheers!
My understanding on marriageable age was whenever menarche occurred, which usually had some corresponding marker or coming of age ceremony, but would obviously be different for each girl. So some girls would be marriageable at 12 and others not till 14 or 15.
Your link cites a National Geographic reference called "The Biblical World." I looked it up on Amazon and searched for menarche, menstrual, mensturation, period, and puberty. The only result I found was page 276, which says:
>Girls in first century Palestine, like Mary, were probably betrothed shortly after puberty began, around age ty [sic] or 14. Both parents would negotiate the marriage contract...
It does not make reference to any actual scientific records, and indicates some ambiguity ("probably") as well as noting they were betrothed at 14, not necessarily married at that age (though I have no idea how long the contract negotiations would take, or the average betrothal time.)
>I'm honestly VERY skeptical about the claims of such late average menarche in your source. Age 17 in the early 1800s? And the slope of the line indicates even higher ages earlier. I seriously doubt it. As I said earlier, I think it's very likely we're seeing some type of reporting bias here.
I don't see it as being that crazy. Jane Austen wrote fairly auto-biographically about her times (1700s England), and women were commonly married around 20. Laura Ingalls Wilder, who admittedly fictionalized large parts of her semi-autobiographical books, evinces shock at hearing of a girl who gets married at 13 or 14 (only a year or so older than her at the time, circa late 1870s). Understandably, records are kind of sketchy-- women didn't talk about their periods, certainly not with men, so it's possible, say, the only records we have are of people who sought medical help for girls who didn't start menstruating until late.
>I doubt there has been any serious changes in puberty for thousands of years. You will certainly see fluctuations due to environmental factors and ethnic differences throughout history.
This is probably the biggest factor. There appear to be often enormous differences between ethnic populations, especially based on geographical regions (see the first link, there's a list about halfway down). So it's possible we're both right-- Northern European women just hit puberty a lot later than women in the Middle East.
To free is creative mind, http://www.amazon.ca/Taste-Buds-Molecules-Science-Flavor/dp/1118141849/ref=sr_1_9?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1412591473&sr=1-9 .
Taste Buds and Molecules talks about how families of flavor molecules are related and why this leads to excellent food and wine pairings, like Sauvignon Blanc with lamb and mint (they all share a common flavor molecule).
What kind of history? Because you are posting on this subreddit I assume that you would want Biblical history?
I was given this book as a present for Christmas and I am enjoying it. It covers ancient times to the spread of Christianity.
Hello, I am also spending this winter reading/listening to the Bible. I would like to recommend the Bible app by life church. TV, it is available for Android and the iPhone. Using this program you can instantly switch between multiple different versions of the bible and select the best one for you. With it you can make notes, highlight and bookmark the passages you are interested in. I find it helpful to switch between the King James version and the American Standard Bible. It allows you to learn how each of them are written. I find it best if I hear someone read the Bible to me, this app allows you download narrative text for pretty much all of the documents.
If you have time and a fan of audio books, checkout audible. com. These two audiobooks will give you an idea of what was going on during the years of Jesus, and the Apostles.
https://mobile.audible.com/pd/History/From-Jesus-to-Constantine-A-History-of-Early-Christianity-Audiobook/B00D8DI9PO?s=s
and
https://mobile.audible.com/pd/History/The-Other-Side-of-History-Daily-Life-in-the-Ancient-World-Audiobook/B00DDVPXJG?s=s
I would also like to recommend this Biblical time chart I have found it to be very insightful. It is amazing.
http://www.amazon.com/Timechart-Biblical-History-Charts-Chronologies/dp/0785817530
Biblica
Hrm. Some questions I have for you:
Then there's things like a caraffe so wine can breathe more quickly. Or a wine rack to keep bottles on (if she has unopened bottles, not every wine fan has such a thing around the house)
Also: this which my girlfriend got for me, and I enjoyed. (It's on my table outside my office now)
This one too:
http://www.amazon.com/Mapping-Boston-Alex-Krieger/dp/0262611732/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1346441847&sr=1-1&keywords=mapping+boston