Their not akin in any way. Atlas was the Titan who held up the sky. In that, he can be assosiated with Tyr, who is said to be the pillar of the sky, or the Irminsul of Anglo-Saxon Heathenry. Or the...
An atlas looks like a thin, hard covered, book that is generally bigger than a piece of paper (8 1/2" X 11") and has a lot of maps in it. It has multiple maps including terrain, political, and...
because it is a book
The Bible contains a lot of geographical detail. Although much of it is incidental to the narrative the details about everyday life together with topography and even...