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For
Pastors, Adults, Youth, Teachers
Sandals Atlas shows
you and your students the Holyland like no other Bible Atlas
does.
Windows XP/Vista/W7 only.
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Sandals Bible Atlas CD is
a unique an inexpensive software resource for everyone who seeks to better
understand and teach the Bible.
The program is great for
teaching presentations, Sunday School, home schoolers, students in private
Christian schools, Bible college and seminary students, teacher
prep, small group leaders, pastors, missionaries, or
personal Bible study.
Sandals incorporates
"overlay" components that relate to specific locations on
colorful, east oriented, high-resolution satellite maps.
(East oriented, meaning, the way the ancients viewed the land.) The
program graphics reflect an inviting and intuitive interface
with drop-down menus and navigation buttons.
Each location includes a
"profile" with its own unique set of resources such as photos,
articles, scripture references and videos.
Over the years a lot
of boring Bible Atlases have been produced.
Some of them are quite expensive and heavily advertised. Many Bible atlas CDs today lack quality
multimedia and their articles are dry and uninteresting. Sandals
Bible Atlas overcomes these traditional deficiencies.
Uniquely, Sandals atlas has a strong
focus on Jesus' ministry, showing you
the places where he walked and how the geography is part
of that story. Most other Bible atlases IGNORE the ministry of
Jesus.
Ages 11 to adult.
This is an excellent program for teachers to KICK OFF your
LESSONS with, use for your own study, or use in combination with
other good multimedia Bible software. Our typical customer for
this CD are pastors, teachers and Bible students.
Sandals doesn't
have a big advertising budget, or wide distribution. It's
earning its reputation through its users. We've been a
Sandals fan ever since it came out. It's great to use with
students, or to illustrate a Bible study you're leading, or for
personal study.
Price and
System Specs below
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DISCOVER key insights with 14
Video lessons featuring on-site teaching by
biblical geography scholar, Dr. Terry Hulbert. Each of
the 14 video clips are high quality MPEG-1 images that
allow the user to choose 640x480 or fullscreen for best
viewing. For example, why is it significant that Jesus
was at Caesarea Philippi when He said that He would
build His church on "this rock?" In each video lesson
Dr. Hulbert explains these and other intriguing stories
from the locations where they occurred.
View a
preview of one of the many on-location videos found in
Sandals Bible Atlas |
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FOLLOW 14 animated guided tours
of Bible events over colorful satellite maps, with
animated arrows to trace the footsteps of Biblical
events such as the exodus, Joshua's campaign, David's
flight from Saul, Jesus' Galilean ministry and much
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BROWSE 120 informative location
profiles that feature pictures, cross-
references, historical and geographical information.
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VIEW over 500 beautiful high
quality photographs. These photos can be
easily copied and pasted into other programs for use in
lesson handouts or presentations. |
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NAVIGATE through 360' photo
bubbles, allowing you to view all
surroundings using a mouse, and quick navigation
drop-down menus for easy map browsing. |
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DIG DEEPER with 34 in-depth,
theological articles written by Dr. Hulbert,
including a "Points to Ponder" section with question and
suggestions for follow-up activities.
View excerpts from
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 What
makes Sandals a good multimedia Bible Atlas...
- Sandals
is full of multimedia. It isn't just a collection of still maps and academic articles like
other
Bible atlases.
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Sandals has
interesting on-location videos and hundreds of location photos. The
videos are narrated and hosted onscreen by Professor Terry Hulbert
of Columbia Int'l Seminary. Terry's knowledge and intriguing
insights into the locations are a pleasure to learn from. These
aren't just short videos either, many last several minutes long.
- Sandals is easy
to use.
- Sandals has a
wide age range. Pastors and teachers will learn from it. Older
children and youth too.
- Sandals sprouts
an electronic "highlighter" that a presenter can use
to draw on the maps.
- PRINTABLE maps
and text! You can even copy/paste article text into your own
documents or print them out with photos intact. Really nice for
making handouts.
- Several high
quality "photobubbles" of Bible locations --360 degree
photos you can turn around in using your mouse. Very dramatic,
especially the one by the Sea of Galilee.
- Sandals is ecumenical,
and written in a friendly, interesting style.
- Sandals is reasonably
priced... something many lesser Bible Atlas are not.
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Highlights:
"Points
to Ponder"
at the end of every
article.
These "points" include questions and suggested follow-up
activities which younger students can pursue.
"Guided
Tours"
...Version
2.0 boasts FOURTEEN animated "flash presentations"
that are in effect mini-lessons. See the graphic below for the
list of "Guided Tours."
120 Location Profiles --learn
the story behind the places in the Bible, what made them
significant.
Dr. Hulbert's 34 In-Depth Articles
written in an insightful knowledgeable and engaging style.
All
article text can be cut and pasted with your mouse into a handout.
Sandals Atlas does not
cover the entire Bible.
It focuses on the stories which happened
in Israel.
It's maps and
materials have a
strong focus on
Jesus' ministry.
This is unusual for Bible atlas software. That said, Sandals
includes some Old Testament maps related to the Conquest of Canaan,
and David.
The SEVEN
Jesus map lessons include video, articles, 'Points to Ponder'
and lots of photos:
- Birth and Childhood
- Baptism and
Temptation
- Introductory
Ministry
- Early Ministry
- Jesus' Growing
Fame and Controversy
- Jesus' Climax
of Popularity
- Jesus' Ministry
in Gentile Areas
Please note: Sandals is a journey in the land of
the Bible and does not have Paul maps. Maps of Paul's missionary
journeys can be found, oddly enough, in Discovery's Life of Christ
CD. These maps are for on computer use. While there is a trick
to printing them, they are designed to be interactive computer-based
color maps.
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Regular Price:
$32 for
one
$30 each
for two or more copies.
Look for Sandals Atlas listed in the
"Bible/Adult/Youth" section of our
online order form.
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Version 2.0 System Requirements:
Windows
98/Me/XP/Vista and Windows 7. Minimum 700 mhz, 128 mb ram, 8 mb
videoram or higher. Sorry, no Mac version.
Compatibility Tip: In Vista and Windows 7
use the Windows "Run as administrator" compatibility or "run as XP"
option if needed.
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MORE NOTES:
Here are a
few of the Bible Atlases we've compared Walking in Their Sandals.
Read
our comparison
here.
- Parsons Bible
Atlas
- Accordance Bible
Atlas
- Logos Bible
Atlas
- Manna Bible
Maps Deluxe
- Carta's Bible
Atlas
 These other map
programs have a lot of maps, but Sandals has the best looking
maps, most interestingly written content, most interactivity,
the most multimedia features and is the only one with on-
location video. And Sandals is the least expensive
one of the bunch!
Sandals concentrates
on the stories which happened in ISRAEL.
It does not include Paul,
Exodus, or Babylonian Captivity
maps.
Why doesn't it have
a complete set? ...because Sandals Bible
maps are not just still photos. Other Bible Atlas programs
can have a hundred maps because they aren't interactive. Sandals
Atlas maps ARE truly interactive and thus there is a limitation
to how many you can fit on one CD.
Sandals interactive
maps do not include stories from the Babylonian Exile. Other
Bible Atlas CDs have these sorts of maps. They're also graphically
dull and multimedia poor.
How does Sandals Atlas
compare to
other Bible Atlas CDs on the market today? Read our comparsion and compare the features
and graphics for yourself.
Some maps have more
info, photos and interactivity than others. For example, Bethsaida
(feeding of the 5000) has an interactive map, article, video
and photos. Sandals Version 1.0 does not have a 'complete'
set of every Bible map, though more are expected in version 2.0
according to the developer if version 1.0 does well enough to
warrant ver 2.
Pastors, Preachers and
Travelers...
Sandals Atlas
has a tremendous wealth of photos and videos to illustrate sermons
and lessons when projected using a data projector. Dr. Hulbert's
extended articles get behind the stories and often examine how
geography played a role in the stories.
The content is scholarly
(without feeling like you're back in school) and ecumenical.
The writing is crisp, with an eye to both the archaeological,
geographical and biblical importance of each location.
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