“You shall have no other gods before me.” Exodus 20:3 I didn’t intend to take the whole summer off for my blog, but that’s how it turned out. I have something to think about as the summer ends. I’ve seen plenty of temples in the places I’ve traveled around the ancient world. The gods were worshiped everywhere. Pervasively, the worship of the Roman emperors grew, starting at the end of the Roman Republic with Julius Caesar. In the eastern Mediterranean, he was called god and savior. About four months after his death, a comet appeared in the sky, interpreted to […]
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Long Journeys
It was our last long driving day. Given that we didn’t get to our hotel until 8:30, this will be briefer than usual. We started briefly at the museum at Konya, which has three inscriptions that helped identify Iconium, Lystra, and Derbe. We drove to ancient Pisidian Antioch, which was a sizable Roman colony when the apostle Paul visited it in Acts 13. After seeing the site, we stopped at the local museum, which has a stone with an inscription on it that mentions a Sergius Paulus, perhaps a relative of the man Paul interacted with on Cyprus. The rest […]