02.02. CONTENTS

CONTENTS Mesopotamia

‘Great Babylon, which I have built’    

Rise and fall of AssyriaFrom favour to hostility

God’s sovereign controlFrom ‘Canaan’ to ‘Palestine’

Ancestral homeland    

‘O Jerusalem, Jerusalem’    

Regal ambitions    

Towards a wider world    

Side by side    

Hope out of Galilee    

Small river, deep valley    

Balm in Gilead?    

Views across JordanThe cost of pride

Upheaval in Arabia    

Power, control and self-interest    

Land of bondage    

Out of Africa    

New directions    

Israel’s northern neighbours    

Cities by the seaThe power of language

One empire after another    

Syrian Christians    

Across the mountains    

Evangelism in Turkey    

People of influenceThe great divide

Civilization and the crossFrom vibrant outreach to dead orthodoxy

Islands    

Looking west    

Rome and beyond    

Map: The world of the Bible story    

Map: Palestine of the Bible story