Abbreviations 4
Preface 5
How to use this Atlas 5

PART ONE: THE LANDS
The Lands of the Bible 6-7

The Holy Land

Physical description 8-9
Physical regions 10
Geological structure 11
Satellite over-view 12-13
Climate 14-15
Principal water-courses 16
Vegetation 17
The River Jordan 18-19
The Dead Sea 20-21
The Negeb 22-23
Lands east of the Jordan 23
Archaeological periods 24
Tells (ruin mounds) 25-27

PART TWO: HISTORY OF THE OLD TESTAMENT AND INTER-TESTAMENTAL PERIODS

The Patriarchal period
Abraham and the King's Highway 28
The time of the Patriarchs 29
Archaeological sites: Middle Bronze Age 30
The Exodus, the Conquest and the Judges Moses and the Exoaus 31-32
The Conquest and settlement under Joshua 33-34
Israel's tribal terntories 35
The Judges 36-37
Archaeological sites. Late Bronze Age 38-39

The United Monarchy
The founding of the Hebrew Monarchy 40
Wars of David's reign 41
David's Kingdom 42
Solomon's Kingdom: adminislrative districts 43
Solomon's Kingdom: trade routes and imports 44

The Divided Kingdom
The Kingdoms of Israel and Judah 45
Shishak's Palestinian campaign 46
The Moabite Stone 47-48
Elijah and Elisha 49
Jeroboam II and Uzziah 50
Sennacherib's campaign 51
Josiah 52
Archaeological sites: Iron Age 53-54

The Post-exilic period
Nehemiah 55-56
The Maccabcan revolt against the Seleucids 57
The Hasmonaean princes 58
Qumran 59-63

Aspects of life in the Old Testament and Inter-testamental periods

The Hebrew calendar 64
The Holy Land: main routes 65
The Holy Land: the economy 66

PART THREE: THE NEW TESTAMENT PERIOD AND THE EARLY CHURCH
Herod the Croat 67
Herod's fortresses 68-70
TheTetrarchs 70-71
Galilee 72
The Sea of Gali lee 73
The Decapolis 74
The ministry of Jesus 75
Greek New Testament manuscripts 76-77
Archaeological sites: Herodian period 78-79
Paul's 'missionary journeys' 80-81
Asia Minor: the 'Seven Churches' 82
Early church congregations 83

PART FOUR: EMPIRES AND PEOPLES OF THE BIBLICAL WORLD

Old Testament period

The 'Table of the Nations’
Sumer and Akkad
Egypt
The Kingdoms of Transjordan
The Philistines and Phoenicians
The Aramaeans
The Assyrian Empire
The Babylonian Empire
The Persian Empire

Inter-testamental and New Testament period

The cultural heritage of Greece 95-97
The Hellenistic Kingdoms 98
The Parthian Empire 99
The Roman Empire 100-101

PART FIVE JERUSALEM: THE HOLY CITY
The growth of Jerusalem
Jerusalem in New Testament times
The city from the air
The Temples of Solomon and Herod

PART SIX THE HOLY LAND TODAY
Time charts
Further reading
Acknowledgments
Index