The ultimate textbook for aspiring scholars devoted to the serious study of biblical geography. Up-to-date depiction of biblical history and geography by way of the ancient sources. Refreshing insights serve to define geographical terms used in the Bible. Reasoned proposals for the identification and location of Old Testament, New Testament and second temple sites. New Testament geography, especially that of the Gospels, is interpreted in light of new understanding resulting from discoveries such as the Dead Sea Scrolls. The first atlas to adopt the modern approach to the study of the Levant as a geographical/historical entity.