This detailed handbook of the Biblical World presents the reader with a review of the ancient world, from the Fourth Millennium BCE up through the Bar Kochba Revolt of 132-135 CE. It is a detailed backdrop to the Holy Scriptures and reviews all the major Empires and salient events which bear so heavily upon an understanding of the Biblical world. This?t events which bear so heavily upon an understanding of the Biblical world. This? Handbook? - a masterpiece of scholarship - is a concise version of the more extensive? Sacred Bridge,.