Bible atlas with 272 maps and text depicting religious, political, military, and economic events of the Old Testament, Second Temple, Early Church, and Intertestamental periods.

The Baker Encyclopedia of Bible Places is a major reference and resource book for the topography and archaeology of Bible times. Listing alphabetically all the main towns and cities, villages and settlements, streams and rivers, countries and states mentioned in the Bible, it is fully illustrated in color throughout. The fruit of the specialist knowledge of more than seventy scholars, the text reflects the latest in archaeological and biblical studies....

This new fourth edition of the Oxford Bible Atlas, now with twenty-seven full-color maps and eighty-one color illustrations, has been thoroughly revised to bring it up to date with both the most recent biblical scholarship and the most modern discoveries in archaeology and topography.

The main purpose of this book is to present the broad sweep of Bible history. It spans over two millennia of history from Abraham, placed approximately at 2000 B.C., through to the Revelation seen by the apostle John, which closes the New Testament at the end of the first century A.D. These limits are expanded by consideration of the biblical book of Genesis before Abraham, by surveys of Mesopotamia and Egypt, and by a look at the spread of Christianity...