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This engaging book brings together the author’s expertise in Biblical studies and his extensive experience in leading tours around the Holy Land. Following the chronological sequence of the key events in Luke’s gospel, the book comprises previous and later history of the sites where these events occurred, geographical and archaeological descriptions, maps of the relevant areas, a description of the sites today and full colour photography throughout. Suitable for the traveller and the ‘armchair pilgrim’ alike, In the Steps of Jesus offers vivid insights into Jesus’ life and travels.

Reviews:

• I am just concluding my third visit to Israel – the second leading a group – and this is the book I would recommend if the purpose is to Walk Where Jesus Walked and to connect the land to the Bible. It is an accessible book – well laid out with excellent pictures and charts – and yet there is depth of insight which comes from scholarly writing from a theologian who has the ability to communicate, capture interest and entertain. It is a good book to read before and/or after a tour of the Holy Land, and is also for those who are not able to make a visit. It also looks and feels good if you are thinking of a present.

• The book is very well presented and contains much helpful background information and biblical commentary, but it does not describe the reality of Israel and Palestine today. The book was published in 2006, during the Palestinian intifada and the security fence was already in place cutting off Bethlehem from Jerusalem, however this is not mentioned or shown. The chapter on Jesus’ encounter with the Samaritan woman gives the impression that the country is less segregated now than in the time of Jesus. If Jesus were to walk from Nazareth to Jerusalem today and he stopped at the well outside Nablus (Sychar in John’s gospel, Shechem in the Old Testament) and he asked a Palestinian woman for a drink she would probably reply “Why are you, a Jew, asking me for a drink when you have piped water in your houses?” And the commentator would interject: “Jews have no dealings with Palestinians” (see John chapter 4).