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Biblical
Anatolia
Turkey is called the Other Holy Land as it has more biblical sites
than any other country in the Middle East. Unfortunately many
Christians are unaware of Turkey’s unique role in the Bible because
Biblical references works usually refer to this strategic peninsula,
that bounded by the Mediterranean, Aegean, and Black Seas, as Asia
Minor or Anatolia. Turkey is very important in understanding the
background of the New Testament, because approximately two-thirds of
its books were written either to or from churches in Turkey where
the three major apostles—Peter, St. Paul, and St. John—either
ministered or lived in.
About St. Paul
St. Paul, the great Christian missionary, was born perhaps in 10 CE,
in the Cilician city of Tarsus. His family was Jewish and from them
he inherited Roman citizenship. St. Paul was privileged to have been
born a Roman citizen at a time when it was not yet a universal right
for people in the empire. Initially confined to freeborn natives of
the city itself, as Roman control was extended throughout Italy and
then to the lands bordering the Mediterranean and beyond, certain
individuals and communities were given this right. At the time of
St. Paul's ancestors, one way of attaining to Roman citizenship was
serving in the Roman army for twenty-five years. However, because of
sabbath and Mosaic food prescriptions this profession would not have
been normally possible for a Jew.
Seven Church of Revelation
...I was caught up in spirit on the Lord's day and heard behind me a
voice as loud as a trumpet, 'Write on a scroll what you see and send
it to the seven churches: to Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira,
Sardis, Philadelphia and Laodicea.
About St. John
Knowledge of the life of St. John of Patmos (also known as the
'Theologian' or the 'Divine'), the author of the Book of Revelation,
which includes the letters to the seven churches of Asia Minor,
mostly comes from apocryphal stories recorded after his death.
Christian tradition identifies him with Other New Testament figures
of the same name, St. John the Evangelist, the traditional author of
the Fourth Gospel who is also claimed to be St. John the Apostle.
The accounts of the Gospels agree that the latter is the son of
Zebedee; together with his brother James (the Greater), he decided
to follow Christ while fishing in the lake Galilee. He became one of
Christ's closest disciples and is said to have been with him on
various significant occasions such as the Transfiguration and the
Crucifixion. According to the Fourth Gospel...
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