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The Cities That Built the Bible

For many, the names Bethlehem, Babylon & Jerusalem are known as the setting for epic stories from the bible featuring rustic mangers, soaring towers & wooden crosses. What often gets missed is that these cities are far more than just the setting for the bible & its characters — they were instrumental to the creation of the bible known today.

Cargill, Assistant Professor of Classics & Religious Studies at the University of Iowa, is an archeologist, bible scholar & host of tv documentaries, such as the History Channel's Bible Secrets Revealed. Going behind-the-scenes of the bible, he blends archeology, biblical history & personal journey as he explores these cities & their role in the bible's creation. He reveals surprising facts such as what the bible says about the birth of Jesus & how Mary’s virgin birth caused problems for the early church. We’ll also see how the Old Testament god was influenced by other deities, that there were numerous non-biblical books written about Moses, Jacob & Jesus in antiquity, & how far more books were left out of the bible than were let in during the messy, political canonization process.

The Cities That Built the Bible is a tour thru 14 cities: the Phoenician cities of Tyre, Sidon & Byblos, Ugarit, Nineveh, Babylon, Megiddo, Athens, Alexandria, Jerusalem, Qumran, Bethlehem, Nazareth & Rome. Cargill includes photos of artifacts, dig sites, ruins & relics, taking readers on a far-reaching journey from the Grotto of the Nativity to the Megiddo battlegrounds, from the Acropolis of Athens to the Qumran caves where the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered.

  • Format
  • hardcover
  • Pages
  • 352
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 978-0-06-236674-0
  • EAN
  • 9780062366740
  • Genres
  • history, religion, archaeology, christian, christianity
  • Release date
  • 2016