Biblical Turkey: A Guide to the Jewish and Christian Sites of Asia Minor (Updated and Revised)

Updated and revised 4th edition.
Biblical Turkey is an authoritative and comprehensive guide to the ancient Jewish and Christian sites in Turkey. It includes all the references to cities, regions, provinces, and natural features in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament, Apocrypha/Deuterocanonicals, New Testament and Apostolic Fathers.
Special features include Sidetrips, which point to nearby sites that are also of interest to visitors. The In-Sites help readers to read between the lines for special insights into the biblical text. In the Ancient Voice section writers from antiquity speak about the ancient world of Asia Minor.
Colorful photographs and plans of selected sites illustrate the volume.
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İçindekiler:
Author’s Introduction 
General Introduction 
Abbreviations
Maps
Turkey’s Seven Regions with Biblical Sites
Jewish Communities in Asia Minor
Paul’s Anatolian Journeys
John’s Seven Churches of Asia
Peter’s Communities
Chapter 1: East Region (Doğu Anadolu Bölgesi)
Natural Sites
Mount Ararat (Ağrı Dağ)
Euphrates River
Tigris River
Ancient Voice: The Gilgamesh Epic
Ancient Regions
Ararat, Urartu
Togarmah
Ancient Cities
Tushpa 
Sidetrip: Urartian Fortresses and Ahtamar Church
Chapter 2: Southeast Region (Güneydoğu Anadolu Bölgesi)
Natural Sites
Mount Ararat (Cudi Dağ)
Ancient Regions
Aram-naharaim
Eden
Gozan
Paddan–aram
Ancient Cities
Carchemish
Modern Voice: Leonard Wooley
Ancient Voice: Jeremiah and the Babylonian Chronicles
Edessa/Ur?
Ancient Voice: Eusebius and the Abgar Tradition
In-Site: Abraham and Ur
Haran (Harran)
Sidetrip: Göbekli Tepe
Nahor
Tiphsah/Zeugma
Ancient Voice: Apollonius of Tyana
Sidetrip: Nemrut Dağı
In-Site: Harmagedon (Armageddon) on the Euphrates
Sidetrip: Tur Abdin
Chapter 3: Mediterranean Region (Akdeniz Bölgesi)
Ancient Regions
Cilicia
Lycia
Muzur, Musru, Musri
Pamphylia
Pisidia
Syria
Ancient Cities
Adana
Alexandria ad Issum
In-Site: The Churches in Syria and Cilicia
Sidetrip: Plain of Issus
Antioch on the Orontes
In-Site: Peter and Antioch
Ancient Voice: The Seleucus Inscription
Sidetrip: Syria
Attalia
Daphne
Mopsuestia
Sidetrip: Hierapolis Castabala and Karatepe
Myra
Sidetrip: Andriace
In-Site: Travel on the Mediterranean Sea
Patara
Ancient Voice: The Lycian League and America’s Founding Fathers
Sidetrip: Xanthos and Letoon
Perga
In-Site: Paul’s Anatolian Journeys
In-Site: Why Did John Mark Leave Paul and Barnabas?
In-Site: The Route from Perga to Pisidian Antioch
Phaselis
Pisidian Antioch
In-Site: New Testament Timeline in Asia Minor
In-Site: Sergius Paulus
Sidetrip: Apollonia
Seleucia Pieria
Sidetrip: The Monastery of Simeon Stylites the Younger
Sidetrip: Cyprus
In-Site: Mt. Zaphon
Side
In-Site: The Agora and Redemption Language in the New Testament
In-Site: Ancient Water Systems
Sidetrip: Aspendus
Tarsus
In-Site: Paul of TarsusAncient Voice: Tibullus
Ancient Voice: Statius
Sidetrip: Cilician Gates
Sidetrip: Soli/Pompeiopolis
In-Site: Tarshish, Tarsus, and Jonah
In-Site: Building a Roman Road
Sidetrip: Roman Road at Sağlıklı Köy
Sidetrip: Seleucia ad Calycadnum
Chapter 4: Central Anatolian Region (İç Anadolu Bölgesi)
Ancient Regions
Cappadocia
Galatia
In-Site: North versus South Galatia?
Lycaonia
Meshech
Phrygia 
Sidetrip: The Highlands of Phrygia
Tubal
Ancient Cities
Ancyra
Sidetrip: Gordium
Caesarea Mazaca
Sidetrip: Kanesh/Kültepe
Sidetrip: Tyana
Derbe
Dorylaeum
Sidetrip: Cotiaeum, Aizanoi, and Altıntaş
Hattusha, Yazılıkaya, Alacahöyük
Iconium
In-Site: A Saint Called Thecla
In-Site: The Via Sebaste
Sidetrip: Çatalhöyük
Sidetrip: Eflatun Pınar
Lystra
In-Site: Timothy of Lystra
Pessinus
Ancient Voice: Ovid
Philomelium
Sidetrip: Ipsus, Prymnesus, Docimium, and Synnada
In-Site: Bartholomew and the Inner Lycaones
Tavium
Chapter 5: Aegean Region (Ege Bölgesi)
Aegean Sea, Mountains and Rivers
Ancient Regions and Roman Province
Aeolis
Asia
Caria
Ionia
Lydia
Phrygia (Asian)
Ancient Voice: Josephus
Ancient Cities
Adramyttium
Sidetrip: Lesbos
Cnidus
Sidetrip: Rhodes
Colossae
In-Site: Philemon, Onesimus, and Slavery
Sidetrip: Apamea, Acmonia, and Eumeneia
Ancient Voice: Dio Chrysostom’s Description of a Conventus 
Ephesus
Ancient Voices: Antipater of Sidon and Pausanius
In-Site: The Prytaneion, the Riot, and its Pillars
In-Site: Celsus’ Attributes and Christian Character
In-Site: The Hall of Tyrannus
In-Site: Fish and Games
In-Site: John and Cerinthus in the Baths
In-Site: Paul and the Stadium
Ancient Voice: Procopius and the Basilica of John
In-Site: John and Ephesus
Ancient Voice: The Acts of John and the Temple of Artemis
Sidetrip: Patmos
Sidetrip: Pollio Aqueduct, Belevi Mausoleum, and Metropolis
Halicarnassus
Sidetrip: Cos (Kos)
Hierapolis
In-Site: Public Toilets and the Trade of Fuller
Laodicea
In-Site: Laodicea’s Water System
Sidetrip: Aphrodisias
Ancient Voice: The Aphrodisias Jewish Inscription
Magnesia ad Meandrum
Sidetrip: Priene
Ancient Voice: The Emperor’s Gospel
Magnesia ad Sipylum
Ancient Voice: Pausanius
Miletus
In-Site: The Gulf of Latmus
Ancient Voice: Alexander Polyhistor
Ancient Voice: Pseudo-Phocylides
Sidetrip: The Apollo Oracle at Didyma
Ancient Voice: The Didymean Apollo on Christ
Sidetrip: Euromos, Mylasa, and Stratonicea
Myndus
Pergamum
In-Site: The Use of Parchment in Early Christianity
Philadelphia
Sardis
In-Site: The Jews in Sardis and Queen Esther
In-Site: Sardis and the Royal Road
Ancient Voice: Dio Chrysostum and Erasing a Name
Smyrna
Ancient Voice: The Martyrdom of Polycarp 
Ancient Voice: Asia’s Entrance into the Roman Empire
In-Site: Sabbatai Zevi
Sidetrip: Colophon, Notion, and Claros
Thyatira
In-Site: Lydia and the Trade Guilds
In-Site: Food Sacrificed to Idols
Tralles
Ancient Voice: Ignatius and the Letter to the Trallians
In-Site: Chairemon the Intercessor
Trogyllium
Sidetrip: Samos
Chapter 6: Black Sea Region (Karadeniz Bölgesi)
Ancient Region-Province
Pontus
Ancient Voice: Pliny the Younger
Ancient Cities
Amasia
Ancient Voice: Strabo the Geographer
Amastris 
Amisus/Sampsames
Heraclea Pontica
Sinope
In-Site: Sinop, Underwater Archaeology, and Noah’s Flood
Zela
Chapter 7: Marmara Region (Marmara Bölgesi)
Ancient Regions and Province
Bithynia
Ancient Voice: Pliny the Younger and his Letters to Trajan 352
Mysia
Thrace
Troad
Ancient Cities
Assos
In-Site: Paul’s Walk to Assos
Byzantium/Constantinople
Ancient Voice: The Siloam Inscription
Chalcedon
Nicea
In-Site: The Seven Ecumenical Councils
Ancient Voice: Cassius Dio
Ancient Voice: The Nicene Creed
In-Site: The Seventh Ecumenical Council
Nicomedia
Ancient Voice: Arrian
Troas, Alexandria
Sidetrip: Troy
Glossary
Index
Credits
About the Author
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