WHAT THE NEW TESTAMENT

AUTHORS REALLY CARED ABOUT

A SURVEY of Their Writings

second edition

Kenneth Berding

Matt Williams

editors

What the New Testament Authors Really Cared About: A Survey of Their Writings

© 2008, 2015 (second edition) by Kenneth Berding and Matt Williams

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Maps “Ministry of Jesus” (pp. 38–39) and “Paul’s Missionary Journeys” (p. 178), courtesy of Tyndale House Publishers. Used by permission. The remaining maps courtesy of Three’s Company and Lion Hudson pic. Used by permission.

Photographs are courtesy of the following licensors and sources:

Chapter 1—Adobe Stock: Temple of Artemis, Sardis, derege-Fotolia / Creative Commons: Herod’s Tomb, Deror avi; Qumran, Cave 4, Effi Schweizer / Todd Bolen and BiblePlaces.com: A scribe’s tools; Herod’s palace in Jerusalem—model.

Chapter 2—Adobe Stock: Mount of Beatitudes, traditional location of the Sermon on the Mount, lvoha13-Fotolia; Jerusalem and the Dome of the Rock, rrodrickbeller-Fotolia; Olive Trees, Gethsemane, Kushnirov Avraham-Fotolia / Creative Commons: Judean Wilderness, David Shankbone / Todd Bolen and BiblePlaces.com: Fallen stones from the temple’s Western Wall; Garden tomb rolling stone.

Chapter 3—Adobe Stock: Sea of Galilee, Kushnirov Avraham-Fotolia; Jerusalem Temple—model, lawcain-Fotolia / Creative Commons: Michelangelo’s Pieta, Stanislav Traykov / Todd Bolen and BiblePlaces.com: Typical Tomb.

Chapter 4—Adobe Stock: Jordan River, Robert Hoetink-Fotolia / Creative Commons: Mount of Olives at Sunset, Andrew Shiva and Godot13 / Todd Bolen and BiblePlaces.com: Beth Shean, capital of Decapolis; Tabgha Harbor, the traditional site of Jesus calling his disciples.

Chapter 5—Todd Bolen and BiblePlaces.com: Ephesus Commerical Market where Paul would have worked; Location of Herod’s Promontory Palace, where Paul may have been imprisoned.

Chapter 6—Creative Commons: St. John’s Basilica, Ephesus, Jbribeiro1 / Todd Bolen and BiblePlaces.com: Capernaum; Feast of Tabernacles booth; Menorah; Tabgha, location from which Jesus met with his disciples after the resurrection (John 21).

Chapter 7—Creative Commons: Traditional site of John’s grave, Ephesus, Mattflachen / Todd Bolen and BiblePlaces.com: Ephesus street near Temple of Domitian.

Chapter 8—Creative Commons: Patmos, Vladimire Boskovic; Pergamum Acropolis, Ingo Mehling / Todd Bolen and BiblePlaces.com: Amphitheater where Christians were persecuted, Beth Shean; Inscription on white stone, Pergamum (see Rev. 2:12, 17); Emperor Nero.

Chapter 9—Adobe Stock: Harbor street in Ephesus, ...