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New Testament Archaeology in Pictures brings the world of the New Testament—the sites, scenes and artifacts—into your home, class, church or Bible study group. Covers cities and artifacts relating to the lives of Jesus and Paul, Hellenistic Palestine and Herodian Jerusalem, Galilee, ancient manuscripts, desert monasteries and Byzantine churches.
Captions by archaeologist Dan P. Cole, professor of religion, Lake Forest College
Topics:
- Hellenized Palestine
- Herod’s Building Projects
- Herodian Jerusalem
- Qumran
- Jesus’ Birth and Preparation
- Jesus’ Ministry in Galilee
- Jesus in Jerusalem
- The Events of Holy Week
- The First Christians: From Jerusalem to Antioch
- Paul’s First Missionary Journey: Cyprus and Antioch
- Paul’s Second Missionary Journey: From Troas to Greece
- Corinth: Strategic City for Paul
- Paul’s Third Missionary Journey: Ephesus Becomes a New Base
- A Prisoner for Christ: Paul’s Travels in Chains
- Christians under Persecution
- Contemporaneous Judaism
- Sepphoris—Cosmopolitan City near Jesus’ Hometown
- Capernaum—Has the Synagogue Where Jesus Preached Been Found?
- Ports on the Sea of Galilee
- The Sea of Galilee “Jesus Boat”
- The Search for King Herod’s Tomb
- Researching the Appearance of Herod’s Temple Mount
- The Gate of the Essenes
- Ossuary of the High Priest Caiaphas
- The Field of Blood Cemetery (Akeldama)
- The Church of the Apostles
- A First-Century Christian Synagogue?
- The Cave Church of Gethsemane
- The Dead Sea Scrolls
- New Biblical Manuscript Discovery at St. Catherine’s Monastery
- Monasteries in Southern Sinai
- Monasteries in the Judean Wilderness
- Recently Discovered Byzantine Churches
CD-ROM Features:
- 285 images total
- Classroom presentation quality
- Ability to create your own slideshows (optimized for a projector running a 1024 x 768 display)
- Ability to copy and paste into documents
- Lengthy captions written and edited by noted scholars
System Requirements:
- Windows:
Minimum Win98, Pentium II or later with 64 MB RAM
- Macintosh:
Minimum Power Macintosh G3 running OS 10.1.5 or later with 128 MB RAM
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