R. Steven Notley Knihy

Carta's New Century Handbook and Atlas of the Bible presents the reader with a review of the ancient world, from the Fourth Millennium BCE up through the Bar Kochba Revolt of 132-135 CE. This Bible atlas provides a detailed backdrop to the Holy Scriptures and sheds light on all the major empires and salient events which are necessary in order to understand the biblical world. A masterpiece of scholarship, Carta's New Century Handbook and Atlas of the Bible is a concise version of Carta’s more extensive The Sacred Bridge .

" ... The author traces the growth of the capital of Judea, following the Jewish return from Babylonian Exile, through the rule of the Hasmonean priest-kings and Herod the Great, and finally into its turbulent days under Roman administration." ~publisher.