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Understanding the New Testament: An Introductory Atlas is unavailable, but you can change that!

The New Testament (27 books) contains a record of the life of Jesus Christ and the birth and early growth of Christianity. The lands of the Bible have been aptly described as the “stage” on which the people who grace the pages of the New Testament moved. By understanding the dynamic of place, we open a window into other aspects of personal and communal life: political, economic, social and...

THE HASMONEAN STATE, 143–63 B.C. The Hasmonean State. With its newly won political and religious independence in hand, the Jewish state began to consolidate and expand power in its ancestral homeland. John Hyrcanus succeeded his father Simon in 135 B.C. and, with the tacit approval of Rome, formally conquered Medeba in Transjordan, Samaria (where he destroyed the Samaritan temple on Mount Gerizim) and Idumea,
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