Research Catalog

Title

The archeology of the New Testament : the life of Jesus and the beginning of the early church / by Jack Finegan.

Author

Finegan, Jack, 1908-2000.

Publication

Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, ©1969.

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Details

Description

xxiv, 273 pages : illustrations, maps, plans; 29 cm

Summary

This book is a pilgrimage to Palestine, undertaken for the same reasons that inspired Melito of Sardis in A.D. 160. Christian leader and first pilgrim to the Holy Land, he sought out the places hallowed by the history of the early Church. With this book in hand, one may follow him, either in actuality or in imagination, "to learn by inquiry," as Origen expressed it, "of the footsteps of Jesus and of his earliest followers." The progress of this pilgrimage follows the order of the New Testament record. The author first investigates sites connected with John the Baptist and then proceeds to Bethlehem and Nazareth, Samaria and Galilee, Jerash, Caesarea, Jericho, the Mount of Olives, Jerusalem and Emmaus. In Jerusalem, the climactic site is reached at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. Each site is illustrated and the accompanying text, numbered to facilitate cross-reference, contains a bibliography of the most important literature on the subject

Alternative Title

Life of Jesus and the beginning of the early church

Subjects

• Palestine > Antiquities
• Bible > New Testament > History of Biblical events
• Bible > New Testament > Antiquities

Note

• First volume of two volumes with the same title, but a different sub-title.

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliographical footnotes.

Contents

Volume 1: The life of Jesus and the beginning of the early church -- volume 2: The Mediterranean world of the early Christian apostles.

ISBN

• 0691035342
• 9780691035345
• 0865310645
• 9780865310643

LCCN

69018057

OCLC

• ocm00057276
• 57276
• SCSB-1989722

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library