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Author:  Format: Manufacturer: Date: Pages:	Rev. Giacomo Perego Soft Cover Alba House 1998 124

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The work of a skilled and careful biblical scholar, this hard-bound Interdisciplinary Atlas of the Bible illustrates the books of Sacred Scripture beginning with the biblical, historical, archaeological and social context that surrounded the origin of the passages from the Old and New Testaments. By means of brief and timely texts, alternating with more than 80 full-color entirely new maps, this work offers in a very brief format the maximum amount of information to assist the average person in a comprehension of the biblical text. Thoughts of a theological nature by a Father of the Church, a rabbi, or other respected author enable the reader to approach each story from another point of view. The work is enriched by a substantial number of appendices: Palestinian history, Canaanite religious rites, archaeology and its methodology, Jewish feasts, weights and measures, general chronology, the canon of Scripture, etc. plus indices of places, themes and names.

Rev. Giacomo Perego, a young priest of the Society of St. Paul, following his studies at the Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome, began to pursue this project as part of his post-graduate work at the École biblique et archeologique française in Jerusalem. Perego rightly affirms in the introduction that the history of salvation told by the Bible requires from the reader who wants to reap some fruit from it two things: (1) a rapport with the Spirit, and (2) a relationship with the first recipients of the Word. This second requirement means that it is necessary to understand the history behind the Word so as not to misread the text.

"This Atlas is a very user-friendly work. In twenty-four chapters with eighty-seven maps and other illustrations, the reader is able to situate key biblical figures and theological ideas in their context. The text is scholarly enough and yet not so large as to be forbidding for the average reader of the Bible. This is the type of work that would be handy to have on the shelf for reference when one is reading the Bible or working with a text for a homily." --Theological Book Service, "Bookviews," March 2000

"With interest in Scripture high, this book provides teachers and preachers with 87 maps, 148 color images and 72 historical documents connecting various academic disciplines. The 24 chapters provide biblical context, historical setting and archaeological information on key texts from the Hebrew and Christian Scriptures." --Rev. Henry Mancuso in The Priest, March 2000

"The first evaluation which comes spontaneously to mind upon seeing this work is its relatively low price. I think that I am not exaggerating in saying that it is worth many times what it costs. It is useful above all for those who wish to familiarize themselves with the history and the world of the Bible. Recent biblical atlases not only present geographical maps but also numerous bits of historical, archaeological and literary information. This work does so in 24 chapters, accompanied by some 87 maps, 148 images, 72 historical documents and a rich array of iconographic material all of which provide us with a panorama of the entire biblical story. This is an atlas which, besides being something one consults, can also be read from the first to the last page. To make the reading more pleasurable, each of the chapters contains four 'flashes' which constitute a little dictionary of the Bible. We find, for example, the words 'creation and science', 'desert', 'synagogue', 'scribes', etc. This handsome work concludes with a series of 10 appendices... and the analytical indices allow for easy and rapid access to the information contained in the atlas." --Franco Ardusso in his review of the Italian edition of which this work is a translation. This review appeared in Famiglia Cristiana, April 1999

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