2024年9月1日 · Pergamon was important not only for having the second largest library of the Roman empire, but because that is apparently where the codex (the bound book) was invented, in the 200s BCE. Between the first and fourth centuries CE, the codex overtook the scroll as the preferred format for first Christian, then eventually all, Greco-Roman literature.

2024年7月20日 · Mark R. Fairchild of Huntington University explores the Laodicean church’s lukewarm reputation, while examining the recent archaeological excavations at Laodicea, Turkey, in his article “Laodicea’s ‘Lukewarm’ Legacy: Conflicts of Prosperity in an Ancient Christian City,” published in the March/April 2017 issue of Biblical Archaeology Review.

2024年8月11日 · Surgical Techniques. Surgical techniques in the ancient world could be surprisingly advanced. The famous Roman physician Galen (c. 129–199 A.D.), who was born in ancient Pergamon near the Asklepion, is generally regarded as the most accomplished medical researcher of the Roman world, and some of his surgical procedures would not be seen again …

2024年8月31日 · Acts indicates that Paul deliberately traveled to cities with Jewish populations. Perga was a major city, and the presence of a Jewish community there made it an ideal base for Paul’s first missionary journey through Anatolia.

2024年1月29日 · The Ishtar Gate, housed in the Pergamon Museum in Berlin. Courtesy Rictor Norton , CC BY 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons. Babylon’s famous Ishtar Gate was commissioned by King Nebuchadnezzar II, but was it completed during his lifetime?

We will enjoy a morning tour of Assos and then leave for Pergamon where we will visit the Acropolis with the steepest theater of the ancient world and the Temple of Trajan. We will also visit the Red Basilica which was an Egyptian Temple, later converted to a church and the Asclepion, the ancient healing center. Dinner and overnight in Soma. (B,D)

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Ancient Pergamon's strategic location along both land and sea trading routes contributed to its prosperity. Pilgrims from all over the Mediterranean region would flock to the city to engage in commerce or to visit the famous Asclepion, a center of medical treatments.

2020年7月31日 · Ishtar Gate, sixth century B.C.E., Pergamon Museum, Berlin. Bearing a dedicatory inscription by King Nebuchadnezzar II, the Ishtar Gate served as a grand entrance to ancient Babylon. Jewish captives, including the prophet …

It also touches upon what we know of medical culture in cities which Paul, and possibly Luke, visited. By considering material from cities such as Tarsus, Pergamon and Ephesus – and the roads in-between – we bring into focus what the life of Luke, an Imperial-era physician in Asia Minor, may have looked liked.