This Fall, I was in Berlin, working on an article on the image of Athens in early Christian literature. Interestingly, both Berlin and my hometown, Nashville, have in their past identified with Athens. In the […]

Jerusalem is, as to be expected, the most often named city in each of the canonical Gospels. But, as I worked through the city data, I noticed how differently each Gospel treats the importance of Jerusalem.

In […]

I’ve created a Google Map with layers from the Gospels, Acts, Paul’s Letters, and Revelation. You can play with removing and adding the layers back, and as in my other maps, you can click on city icons to see […]

I don’t have a map for cities named in the Catholic Epistles because they are so few: only Jerusalem, “Babylon,” and Sodom and Gomorrah.

James and the Letters of John mention no cities at all.

Jude and 2 […]

Here is my map for cities (or villages or small towns) in the four canonical Gospels, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. Making this map was more interesting than I anticipated–I am generally more interested in the […]

Here is my map of the cities in the Book of Revelation. Revelation, of course, is written to the seven cities of Asia (modern Turkey)–Ephesus (modern Selçuk, Smyrna (Izmir), Pergamon (Bergama), Thyatira […]

I’ve mapped the cities mentioned in Paul’s letters, including deutero-Pauline and pastoral letters. I include the disputed Pauline letters for two reasons: (1) I’m looking at the reception of cities in biblical […]

One of my most vivid memories from Greece is sitting in the middle of a row in an overcrowded hydrofoil boat, hurtling from Amorgos to Santorini in stormy waters, holding a gyro sandwich in my hands (that didn’t […]

One of my favorite toys for procrastinating is Google Earth. One summer, when I was working **diligently** on my dissertation, I decided to plot all of the cities mentioned in Acts with descriptions of their […]