SUGGESTION: "The Geography of Strabo"

Wild Eagle

By studying seven churches in the book of revelation, I come across so much with Strabo. It seems like he is the main source of dictionaries and encyclopedias. 

EmileB

definitely ! [Y]

Rosie Perera

Slava Novik said:

By studying seven churches in the book of revelation, I come across so much with Strabo. It seems like he is the main source of dictionaries and encyclopedias. 

Colin Hemer's The Letters to the Seven Churches of Asia in their Local Setting and William Mitchell Ramsey's The Letters to the Seven Churches of Asia are also also both superb studies of the geographical and historical background on those cities. The former is available in pre-pub only as part of a collection. The latter is in a CP collection of Ramsey's works. Both look worth getting, but of course the latter is more affordable.

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Rosie Perera said:

Colin Hemer's The Letters to the Seven Churches of Asia in their Local Setting and William Mitchell Ramsey's The Letters to the Seven Churches of Asia are also also both superb studies of the geographical and historical background on those cities.

The difference is, this guy was pretty contemporary:

"6.12. Strabo

Strabo (c. 64 BCE to after 21 CE) is known for his Geography which has survived more or less intact in 17 books. Book 15 covers the areas of Iran and India; book 16, Mesopotamia, Syria, Palestine, and Arabia; book 17, Egypt and Ethiopia. There is some useful information on Palestinian history as well as geography (16.2.28–46 §§759–65). Strabo also apparently wrote an important world history, which has long been lost but which Josephus seems to have made use of it in the Antiquities."

Grabbe, Lester L.: A History of the Jews and Judaism in the Second Temple Period. London : T & T Clark International, 2004- (Library of Second Temple Studies 47), S. 127