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tobiblicalstudiescourses,inasmuchasflrtycitiesinMesopotamia,Aram!
Syria,Phoenecia,AnalOlia, Egypt,Palestine,andprovincesoftheRoman
worldarepresented.Descriptionsemphasizethepublicaspectsofthese
cities(trade,religion,defense,industry,<Lndgovernment).

Manhews, VictorH. Mallnersandeus/omsin/heBible:AnJl1uslrated
GuidetoDailyLifeinBibleTimes. Peabody, Mass.: Hendrickson, 1988.
Designedfortheintroductoryaudience,thisbookrelieson comparative
studiesofNearEasternculturesandarchaeologicaldatainorder 10 recon-
struct social practices in the periods stretchingfrom theearly second
millenniumB.CE. throughthesecondcenturyCE.. Fivechapters(The
PatriarchalPeriod,ExodusandSenlementPeriod,MonarchyPeriod,Exile
andReturn,andIntertestamentalandNewTestamentPeriod)arearranged
ina waythatcomplementscoursesthatproceedina roughlychronologi-
calpresentationofbiblicalliterature.

BIBLEAnASlo..'iANDGEOGHAI'HY

Aharoni, Yohanan. TheLand0/theBible. Rev. cd. Trans];ncdbyA. F.
R'liney. Philadelphia:Westminster, 1979. Thisisa landmarkworkin the
historical geographyoftheland that hostedtheculturesofthe Bible.
Thoughdated,thebookprovidesusefulinformationonthegeographical
and climacticsetting, toponymy,andhislOryofSyro-Palestine,fromlhe
BronzeAge 10 thePersianPeriod.

Alumni,Yohanan and Michael Avi-Yonah. MacmillanBibleAtlas. New

York: MacMillan, 1993.Thestrengthofthisvolumeisitsmultiplemaps

frompal1icularregionsanderas,illustratingreconStnJctionsoftraderoutes,

military campaigns,andculturalshifts. Themapsarebrgelystructured

aroundevenLSnamlledinHebrewBibleandNewTestamenltexts,reveal-

ing a perspective thatbeginswith thetcxt andsupplementsit with a

backgroundthatincludeseXlrabiblicalsources.

Bahat,Dan,withChaimT.Rubinstein.Ill/ls/raledAtlasa/Jerusalem.Trans-

lated byS. Kctko. New York: Simon &. Schuster, 1990. Thisis a fine,

concisehistoricalatlasofJerusalembasedonrecentfieldworkandsuit-

ableforintroductolYstudents.

May,HerbertG.OxjordIJibleAtlas.3ded.Hev. byJohnDay.NewYork:
OxfordUniversityPress, 1984.Richlyillustratedtopographicalmapstrace
Shlftll1gbordersandroutesfromthcBronze 10 Homanperiods,including
commentariesthataddressgeogr.lphy,clim:.ltc,andtht':generalhistorical
archaeologicalcontext.