In the tradition of Oxford Histories, this well-illustrated and
authoritative volume brings together a series of expert scholars to
discuss key aspects of a topic. This is an American production and
all bar one of the 13 contributors teach in the United States. Here
they provide personal but learned and reliable guides to the
history, art, architecture, languages and literatures of the Holy
Land in the centuries surrounding the birth of Christ. Collectively
they evoke that world vividly and make accessible the latest
research into the life and religion of early Judaism and
Christianity, providing the cultural context for the most important
of all our books: the Bible. (Kirkus UK)
This is a comprehensive, fully illustrated survey of the world from which the Bible emerged -- its geopolitics, symbolic universes, and fascinating social and political organization. Stretching from prehistoric times to the rise of Islam, and from Mesopotamia to Rome, the book focuses primarily on biblical Israel and early Judaism and Christianity. Written by leading scholars, it discusses not only the political and military history and key events and personalities of successive eras but also their art, architecture, languages, political and legal systems, literature, and religion, incorporating the latest archaeological discoveries and state-of-the-art methodologies from historiography, biblical studies, sociology, and anthropology. Hundreds of colour and black-and-white photographs, line drawings, and maps of artefacts, reconstructions, and geographical locations help bring alive the cultures of the Near East and Greco-Roman world.
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