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This detailed handbook of the Biblical World presents the reader with a review of the ancient world, from the Fourth Millennium BCE up through the Bar Kochba Revolt of 132–135 CE. It is a detailed backdrop to the Holy Scriptures and reviews all the major Empires and salient events which bear so heavily upon an understanding of the Biblical world. This Handbook—a masterpiece of scholarship—is a...

Transjordan was due to the “King’s Highway” (Num 20:17; 21:22), the route from Damascus to Elath which also led to Midian and thence to South Arabia. The Dead Sea. The biblical name for the great lake into which the Jordan flows was the Sea of Salt (Gen 14:3; Num 34:12; et passim) or the Sea of the Arabah (Deut 3:17; Josh 3:16; 2 Kgs 14:25). Josephus called it Asphaltitis (Ant. 1.9.1). By the latter half of the second century CE it was called the Dead Sea by the Greco-Roman writers. It formerly
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