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New Testament

Palestine in the Time of Christ

4 B.C.–A.D. 37

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A political map of Palestine following Herod the Great, showing the regional divisions familiar from the Gospels.

Source: George Adam Smith, Atlas of the Historical Geography of the Holy Land (1915). Map hosted by Wikimedia Commons. Public domain.

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