Map & Lamp

The Bible,
book by book.

The land it happened in, the history around it, the people in it, and how every book fits the one story. Animated in a handmade clay style, on a lamplit map table.

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Every book of the Bible happened somewhere, to real people, under real kings. Map & Lamp takes one book at a time, sets it on the map, and walks through it slowly, with the sources named and the story kept whole.

First on the table

A young clay figure in a headcloth looks back at Jerusalem at sunset as his group walks away.

Premieres Saturday, October 17, 9 am ET

The Book of Daniel Explained

Babylon, four kingdoms, and the lions’ den

A teenager is marched from Jerusalem to the capital of the world’s superpower, and outlives the empire. About seventeen minutes on where Daniel lived, who ruled him, what the visions say, and the main ways Christians have read them.

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A clay king in a tall cap stands on a terrace with his back to us, looking out over Babylon at sunset.

Saturday, October 17, with Daniel

Who Was Nebuchadnezzar?

The king of Babylon in the Bible and in history

The king who burned Jerusalem shows up in Scripture praising Israel’s God. The man, the city and the records.

  • A clay crown prince rides a two-horse chariot through a river, his army behind him.
  • Clay workers carry baskets of bricks up a wooden ramp onto Babylon’s wall.
  • A clay man on hands and knees in wet grass beside an ox, the city far behind.
The Jordan’s last bends winding into the Dead Sea between dry cliffs.

Saturday, October 17, with Daniel

The Land of the Bible Explained

The one map that makes every book clearer

Why every empire in the Bible fought over the same small strip of land. It was the only road between them.

  • Three clay travelers lead a donkey caravan along the coast road.
  • Four clay fishermen haul a net into a boat on the Sea of Galilee at dawn.
  • A clay dove over a fork in a dirt road, a stone cairn at the split.

Sixty-six books, one shelf

A spine lights when its episode is ready. Daniel is first. Tap or hover a spine to see where it stands.

Daniel: first episode, Saturday, October 17

Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.

Psalm 119:105

How we handle the text

Scripture as written
Every quotation, on screen and spoken, is from the Berean Standard Bible.
Sources you can check
Archaeology, ancient records and scholarship are named on screen and listed in each episode’s description.
Fair on the debates
Where faithful Christians disagree, on dates, prophecy or the end times, we lay out the main views and their reasons and leave the verdict with you.
Checked before release
Every script, picture and title is reviewed against the text before it goes out.

What we believe

Map & Lamp teaches from inside historic Christian faith: one God in three persons, Scripture as God’s Word, and Jesus Christ crucified and risen as the center of the whole story. Every book on the shelf is read as part of that one story.

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