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Alexander to Constantine: Archaeology of the Land of the Bible, Volume 3 is unavailable, but you can change that!

Drawing on groundbreaking archaeological research, Eric M. Meyers and Mark A. Chancey re-narrate the history of ancient Palestine in this richly illustrated and expertly integrated book. Spanning from the conquest of Alexander the Great in the fourth century BC until the reign of the Roman emperor Constantine in the fourth century AD, they synthesize archaeological evidence with ancient literary...

tombs. The Gospels describe how Joseph of Arimathea, a rich man (Matt 27:57) and a member of the Jewish council (Mark 15:43; Luke 23:50), took Jesus’ body and placed it in a tomb—one that he himself owned, according to Matthew (27:60). When the women visited the tomb on the first day of the week, they found that the sealing stone had been rolled away (Matt 28:2; Mark 16:3–4; Luke 24:2; cf. John 20:1). Relying only on the text, it might be difficult to envision this sort of tomb entrance and rolling
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