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Millions of people across the world have heard of Jesus Christ, but how many are truly acquainted with the key locations he frequented? In the second edition of this established text, Peter Walker shares the fruits of his lifetime s research and expert knowledge to present a rich and engaging guide to the historical aspects of Jesus world. Following the chronology of Jesus life and ministry and drawing especially on the Gospel of Luke, we move from Bethlehem to Nazareth to the desert, and then follow him on his final journey from Galilee to Jerusalem. In each chapter particular attention is given to what Jesus did in that location, placing his ministry within its original historical and geographical context, and raising questions of archaeology, authenticity and the recorded evidence of later pilgrims and historians. This new edition takes into account the archaeological discoveries of the last 15 years to provide an up-to-date guide to the Holy Land of today. Using maps, timelines and boxed features that highlight and analyse key topics, In the Steps of Jesus is a rich and absorbing text that presents scholars at all levels of study with a unique insight into Jesus world.

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Philosophie et théologie

Christianity

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Publié par	Lion Hudson
Date de parution	21 septembre 2018
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781912552061
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	17 Mo

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IN THE STEPS OF JESUS
SECOND EDITION
Peter Walker

For Georgie, with continued thanks and much love

Other related books written by Peter Walker:
In the Steps of Saint Paul (Lion Scholar, 2018)
The Story of the Holy Land: a visual history (Lion Books, 2018)
The Lion Guide to the Bible (Lion Books, 2010)
For further information, see www .lionhudson .com or www .drpeterwalker .com

Text copyright © 2018 Peter Walker
This edition copyright © 2018 Lion Hudson IP Limited
The right of Peter Walker to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopy, recording, or any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher.
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ISBN 978 1 9125 5205 4
e-ISBN 978 1 9125 5206 1
First hardback edition 2006
First paperback edition 2009
Acknowledgments
Unless otherwise noted Scripture quotations are taken from the Holy Bible, New International Version (Inclusive Language Edition), copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984 International Bible Society. Used by permission of Zondervan and Hodder & Stoughton Limited. All rights reserved. The ‘NIV’ and ‘New International Version’ trademarks are registered in the United States Patent and Trademark Office by International Bible Society. Use of either trademark requires the permission of International Bible Society. UK trademark number 1448790.
Scripture quotations marked KJV are taken from The Authorized (King James) Version. Rights in the Authorized Version are vested in the Crown. Reproduced by permission of the Crown’s patentee, Cambridge University Press.
pp. 150–51 Extracts taken from Egeria’s Travels, edited by John Wilkinson (trans) (1999), published by Aris and Phillips.
p. 181 Extracts taken from Eusebius: Life of Constantine , edited by Cameron, A & Hall, S.G. (trans) (1999). Permission granted by Oxford University Press.
All maps and diagrams by Richard Watts of Total Media Services.
Cover image © picturejohn/istockphoto.com
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

CONTENTS
Introduction
Luke: the man behind the message
Luke’s perspective on Jesus
Key dates around the time of Jesus
Josephus on John the Baptist and Jesus
Key dates in the Holy Land
Map of Palestine in Jesus’ day
1. Bethlehem
Humble beginnings
The star of Bethlehem and the date of Jesus’ birth
Key dates: Bethlehem
Bethlehem today
Jerome in Bethlehem
2. Nazareth
Map of Galilee
Childhood locations
Ancient Sepphoris
Locating Cana
Key dates: Nazareth
Nazareth today
The Nazareth Decree
3. The River Jordan
Baptism and renewal
Qumran, the Essenes and John the Baptist
Key dates: the River Jordan
The River Jordan today
Baptism in the Jordan
Evidence for the Byzantine site of Jesus’ baptism
4. The Judean Desert
Testing in the wilderness
Geological features of the desert
Key dates: the Judean Desert
The Judean Desert today
Map of monasteries in the Judean Desert
The Desert Fathers
5. Galilee and its villages
Scenes of public ministry
Josephus’ description of Lake Galilee
The locations of Jesus’ ministry in Galilee
Map of Lake Galilee in first century
Galilean imagery in Jesus’ teaching
Galilee today
Key dates: Galilee and its villages
Visiting Galilee today
6. Samaria
The enemy within
Samaria in the fourth century AD
Map of Samaria
The Samaritans according to Josephus
Key dates: Samaria
Samaria today
The Crusades
7. Caesarea Philippi
Time for a decision
The scene of the transfiguration: Tabor or Hermon?
Key dates: Caesarea Philippi
Caesarea Philippi today
8. Jericho
The lowest city in the world
The Dead Sea
The siege of Masada
Key dates: Jericho
Jericho today
The Bordeaux pilgrim’s visit to Jericho and Jerusalem
9. Bethany
A quiet haven
Key dates: Bethany
Bethany today
Egeria’s visit to Bethany
10. The Mount of Olives
Jesus’ favoured location
Map of the Mount of Olives
Key dates: The Mount of Olives
The Mount of Olives today
Eusebius and the Mount of Olives
A weekend in modern Jerusalem
11. The Temple
The heart of the nation
The Herodian Temple
The destruction of the Temple
Key dates: The Temple
The Temple today
The Temple: Muslim, Jewish and Christian perspectives
12. Jerusalem
The ‘holy city’?
Celebrating Passover in Jesus’ day
Map of Jerusalem in Jesus’ day
Pontius Pilate
Simon of Cyrene and John Mark
Key dates: Jerusalem
Jerusalem today
Jerusalem’s moving walls
Jerusalem in the book of Acts
Visitors to Jerusalem in the nineteenth century
Overview of Jesus’ last hours before the crucifixion
13. Golgotha and the tomb
From death to life
Crucifixion in the ancient world
First-century burial practices
Key dates: Golgotha and the tomb
Golgotha today
Eusebius’ description of Christ’s tomb and Constantine’s buildings
Christian celebration in Byzantine Jerusalem
14. Emmaus
Travelling along the way
Key dates: Emmaus
Emmaus today
Possible sites of Emmaus
Emmaus: the continuing journey
Further Reading
Index

INTRODUCTION
Travel broadens the mind, they say. Presumably it can also deepen the mind, or even change it. Going to places we have never gone to before, seeing the world through the eyes of others, learning to listen to their stories (both from the past and the present), we can return to our original starting point with new vision or expanded horizons.
This feature of common human experience was no doubt at work in ancient times whenever people travelled for any reason other than strict necessity. To paraphrase the famous opening lines of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales , ‘When the spring is in the air … people long to go on pilgrimages.’ Today the equivalent might be travelling for conferences or purely for a holiday, so it is no wonder that in our own age the travel industry continues its relentless expansions. Many people, it seems, have a ‘travel bug’.
This book is written for such people – including those who would love to travel but are unable to do so for some reason. It is patterned as a journey round various places in the Bible lands and will itself take you on a journey – to a part of the globe that, historically, has been one of the most visited places on earth. Modern political troubles in the region frequently act as a disincentive for would-be travellers. If that is you, then this book is designed expressly to help bring something of the region back to you.
So this can be, if you wish, a ‘travel guide for the non-traveller’. There may of course be readers who find these pages an incentive to travel to the places mentioned, but there will be others who receive its challenge in a different way – as an invitation to make a mental, perhaps more personal, journey. In the absence of physical travel there is always the liberating possibility of travel within our minds.
Behind the places mentioned here there lies a story, and behind the story stands an enigmatic figure – probably the most famous person ever to set foot in this region. In some ways this figure from the first century AD remains a shadow. People often visit this region hoping to learn more about him (almost in search of him, it seems, or wanting to find him, if such were possible), but they can sometimes return home sharply disappointed. For, unlike a great builder such as Herod the Great, this person did not leave any physical remains that we can see or touch in the area. The physical land does not, in that sense, bring him any the closer.
Nor did he himself ever write anything. Contrast this with another first-century figure from the region, Josephus. As the Jewish commander of rebel troops in Galilee, he first fought against the Romans and then went over to their side, later writing lengthy volumes about that war and more generally about the antiquities of the Jewish people. Through his writings we gain a great deal of precious historical information; but we also gain access to the person and thought of Josephus the author, as he seeks to defend himself and to justify his changing of sides. Not so with this other Jewish man from first-century Galilee. Not for nothing have some spoken of ‘the shadow of the Galilean’.
What we do have (which sometimes makes scholars of the classical world slightly envious) is no less than four accounts of his life and teachings, written down by others within a generation or so. Much briefer than the writings of Josephus (and written by authors far less preoccupied with justifying themselves), the Gospels are concise and sharply to the point. They are ruthlessly focused on their subject matter, determined to do all that lies in their power to bring this recent historical figure to life.
Although all four of the Gospel writers are quoted in this book, there will be a special focus on one of them – the only non-Jewish author among them, a medical doctor called Luke. There are several reasons for this choice. First, his narrative is filled with a particularly human colour – he takes us artfully and imperceptibly into the thought-world of ordinary people of the time as they try to make sense of, and respond to, the person who has turned up in their midst. Next, he makes explicit comments which show his genuine concern to write authentic history; he evidently wants to show how his story is anchored in the real world and in mapping it squarely onto the known world of his readers. Thirdly, being himself by birth an outsider to the world of Judaism, he is particularly good at helping others who feel ‘on the outside’ to know that they can