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ReViews: Following Jesus on the Ground

By Claire Pfann

In the Master’s Steps: The Gospels in the Land, The Carta New Testament Atlas, Vol. 1

By R. Steven Notley
(Jerusalem: Carta, 2014), 82 maps, photos and illustr., 88 pp., $25 (paperback)

Students and visitors to Israel often ask me to recommend one or two books they should purchase to help them better understand the world of Jesus. This is one of those books. Based on the magisterial atlas The Sacred Bridge by Anson F. Rainey and R. Steven Notley,a In the Master’s Steps excerpts and updates the sections dealing with the Gospel narratives. The Sacred Bridge is quite literally a weighty tome of 448 beautifully illustrated, glossy pages in somewhat small print. (It weighs more than 4 pounds.) Notley’s new publication sacrifices none of the scholarship or sophistication of that […]

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Footnotes

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Reviewed by Harold Brodsky, “Mapping Biblical Events,” BAR 33:02.

Endnotes

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Bargil Pixner, With Jesus through Galilee: According to the Fifth Gospel (Rosh Pina, Israel: Corazin Publishing, 1992); Bargil Pixner, With Jesus in Jerusalem: His First and Last Days in Judea (Rosh Pina, Israel: Corazin Publishing, 1996).