By Fred Strickert
In this significant revision of his prize-winning 1998 e-book, Bethsaida: domestic of the Apostles, Fred Strickert offers nonspecialist readers with the most recent findings within the ongoing excavation and evaluate of et-Tell, now pointed out by way of many archaeologists because the website of biblical-era Bethsaida. New discoveries have associated the positioning again to the Iron Age time of David and printed new connections to the tetrarch Philip and his kinfolk. Strickert develops a proof for the decline and destruction of the town sharply diversified from his earlier end. Readers of Bethsaida: domestic of the Apostles will are looking to stick to the tale into this sequel.
Fred Strickert is professor emeritus of faith at Wartburg university in Waverly, Iowa, and is pastor of the Lutheran Church of the Redeemer, Jerusalem. he's the writer of Rachel Weeping: Jews, Christians, and Muslims on the fort Tomb (Liturgical Press).
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