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Understanding Biblical Kingdoms & Empires by Carta

Understanding Biblical Kingdoms & Empires by Carta

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SKU: PB402.9

An Introductory Atlas & Comparative View

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Understanding Biblical Kingdoms & Empires by Carta Books

Though centered in the southern Levant, the actual world of the Bible is much larger, stretching across the ancient Near East and filling the eastern Mediterranean Basin.

None of the great empires of the ancient Near East or the Mediterranean Basin were born in the Levant. The powers that became Egypt, the Hittites, Assyria, Babylon, Persia, Greece and Rome all began elsewhere, in lands blessed with resource bases that were more than adequate to prompt urbanization, fuel expansion and, eventually, burst into the full bloom of Empire. Moreover, none were ever really at home in the Levant, either. Rather, they arrived in a succession of waves, inundated the coast and broad inland valleys that cradled the imperial highways of the ancient world, then flowed on.

It is the dynamism of these great empires which are focused on through the prism of the Holy Land in this innovative and refreshing book.

Contents:

  • On the Edge of Empire in a Land Between
  • The Old Babylonian Empire and the Origin of the People of Israel
  • The New Kingdom of Egypt and Israel's Exodus and Conquest of Canaan
  • Egypt's Waning Empire and the Rise of Kingship in Israel
  • The Assyrian Empire and Israel's Divided Kingdom
  • The Neo-Babylonian Empire and Judah's Last Hurrah
  • The Persian Empire and the Return from Exile
  • The Empire of Alexander the Great and Hellenism in the Levant
  • The Ptolemaic and Seleucid Empires and the Hasmonean Kingdom
  • The Roman Empire and the Kingdoms of the Herods
  • Afterword
  • Notes and  References
  • List of Maps

Author:  Paul H. Wright

Soft Cover, 40 pages, 9 x 12 in. (23 x 30 cm)

Featuring:

  • Maps
  • Photographs
  • Illustrations


Imported from Israel

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