Many familiar Gospel narratives are filled with geographic details that we gloss over because of our distance from the Holy Land. Yet climate, landscape, natural resources, and other features of geography leave a lasting mark on the societies and cultures that have developed within them. In a world of dirt roads and dry riverbeds, where shepherds watch their flocks in the hills and fishermen mend their nets by the sea, Jesus taught from hill and plain, using the surrounding landscape as the backdrop for his teaching. Jesus' parables and illustrations are often brimming with geographic clues, but the significance of these distinctive details is often lost on us today. The Lexham Geographic Commentary on the Gospels puts readers in the sandals of the disciples as they travel throughout Israel with Jesus, explaining the significance of geography for mining the riches of the biblical text.

About the Author
Dr. Barry J. Beitzel is Professor Emeritus of Old Testament and Semitic Languages at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Deerfield, Illinois, USA. He is the author of The New Moody Atlas of the Bible, and his publications on Near Eastern geography have appeared in a variety of monographs and journals.


Book Information
ISBN 9781683590446
Author Barry Beitzel
Format Hardback
Page Count 448
Imprint Faithlife Corporation
Publisher Faithlife Corporation
Weight(grams) 1060g
Dimensions(mm) 231mm * 167mm * 40mm