<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/90bbfe08-e1bb-4836-a4ff-44e655ec5088/E5AF4A77-9007-4CCE-AE1A-58C6DABE6D59/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.christianleadershipcenter.org/bibarch19.htm" href="http://www.christianleadershipcenter.org/bibarch19.htm" style="font-size: 11px;">www.christianleadershipcenter.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.christianleadershipcenter.org/bibarch19.htm"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.christianleadershipcenter.org/img/3AD480FD-5BDF-4674-A53C-0E0B0AA0E4E4" alt="Christian Leadership Center" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.christianleadershipcenter.org/bibarch19.htm"><P class="MsoNormal"> <A href="http://www.christianleadershipcenter.org/bibarch.htm" > Biblical Archaeology Index</A></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.christianleadershipcenter.org/bibarch19.htm"><P class="MsoNormal"><B> <SPAN>Class Twenty-Three</SPAN></B></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.christianleadershipcenter.org/bibarch19.htm"><SPAN>THE BUILDING OF THE CHURCH</SPAN></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.christianleadershipcenter.org/bibarch19.htm"><P class="MsoNormal"><B>Introduction</B></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.christianleadershipcenter.org/bibarch19.htm"><P class="MsoNormal">In the last section we discussed some of the early Christian churches along with the archaeological finds at those sites--Nazareth, Bethlehem, Cana, Capernaum, and the sites by the lake where Jesus had such a rich ministry.   This section will continue the focus on the beginnings of Christianity, primarily where the archaeology provides some information about the Church or the culture that characterized the ministry in that region.  The easiest way to organize the material is to start in Jerusalem, and then move to other cities in the land and eventually throughout Syria and Asia Minor.  Here especially we shall have to be brief, focusing on the most significant things for biblical studies--otherwise this becomes a study of the Greek, Roman, and Byzantine worlds.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/E5AF4A77-9007-4CCE-AE1A-58C6DABE6D59/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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