{"id":116268,"date":"2026-02-17T18:32:22","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T18:32:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/116268\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T18:32:22","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T18:32:22","slug":"from-bethel-to-bethlehem-how-the-bible-shaped-the-american-map-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/116268\/","title":{"rendered":"From Bethel to Bethlehem: How the Bible Shaped the American Map"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How did biblical placenames like Bethel, Bethlehem, Canaan, and Goshen find their way to American landscapes? Join a religion scholar, a professor of modern Hebrew, and a Special Collections curator for a cross-disciplinary exploration of why early American colonists sought to mirror the geography of the Middle East on U.S. soil. This event features a rare look at five centuries of maps and manuscripts from Special Collections to explore how the Hebrew Bible shaped colonial American identity and influences our maps to\u00a0this\u00a0day.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Shalom Goldman, Professor Emeritus\u00a0of\u00a0Religion<\/p>\n<p>Rebekah Irwin, Acting Dean of the Middlebury College Library and Director and Curator Special Collections\u00a0&amp;\u00a0Archives<\/p>\n<p>Michal Strier, Visiting Assistant Professor\u00a0of\u00a0Hebrew<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday, February 24th at 4:30pm in Special\u00a0Collections\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Please note: This event will be held in Special Collections, please review our visiting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.middlebury.edu\/library\/special-collections\/visiting-special-collections#before-you-visit\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">guidelines here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"How did biblical placenames like Bethel, Bethlehem, Canaan, and Goshen find their way to American landscapes? Join a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":114306,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154],"class_list":{"0":"post-116268","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bethlehem","8":"tag-bethlehem","9":"tag-bethlehem-headlines","10":"tag-bethlehem-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116268\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}