1, 2, & 3 John
The Photo Companion to the Bible is a unique collection of digital photographs that illustrate the biblical text verse by verse.
- PowerPoint-based resource
- Library of images provides broad selection
- Created by a team of professors and scholars
- Organized by chapter and verse
- Each chapter is illustrated by 65–145 photographs
- Photographs of places and artifacts related to the Epistles of John
- Annotations explaining the image selection and background
- All content easily edited and adapted for your own needs
- Free lifetime updates
- Generous copyright permissions
- Satisfaction guaranteed
- Depictions of key concepts such as cleansing, advocacy, and fellowship as imaged in John’s cultural context
- Archaeological finds and cultural practices related to propitiation
- Examples of Greco-Roman art demonstrating what it means to be perfected
- Artifacts depicting the children, fathers, and young men of John’s world
- Imagery from the Roman world illustrating various aspects of “abiding”
- Greco-Roman artifacts related to deceit and imitation
- Preserved examples and modern recreations of inkwells and writing implements
About the authors: Dr. Kai Akagi holds a Ph.D. in New Testament from the University of St Andrews and is a lecturer at Japan Bible Seminary. Dr. Kris Udd is a pastor and has a Ph.D. in Old Testament Archaeology from Andrews University. Dr. Steven Anderson is a career Bible scholar and teacher who earned his Ph.D. from Dallas Theological Seminary. Dr. Todd Bolen is Professor of Biblical Studies at The Master’s University.
Check out our other volumes in the series: Joshua, Judges, Ruth, 1 Samuel, 2 Samuel, 1 Kings, 2 Kings, Ezra, Nehemiah, Esther, Psalm 23, Daniel, Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Acts, Romans, 1 Corinthians, 2 Corinthians, Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians and Philemon, 1 & 2 Thessalonians, 1 & 2 Timothy, Titus, Hebrews, James, 1 & 2 Peter, Jude, and Revelation.
Free PowerPoint download: 1 John 4 (90 slides)
Simply fantastic
“Most teachers realize that effective images on screen are essential to winning a modern audience and explaining ancient cultural ideas and places. Random searches on the web often lead us astray or suggest images that are simply not accurate. Here the BiblePlaces team has organized image suggestions (with interpretations) by chapter and verse in the Bible. And the result is simply fantastic. We can now locate the right image for our text and read brief expert explanations of what the image means. Like magic, the Photo Companion to the Bible has upgraded each of our efforts to provide accurate contextual explanations of the Bible. There is no tool available today that serves this purpose so effectively.”
—Gary M. Burge, Professor of New Testament, Calvin Theological Seminary; author of The Letters of John in the NIV Application Commentary
Without parallel
“This remarkable collection of images is really without parallel. First, there are images that are at times so striking that they give a whole new understanding of a concept even for those very familiar with the letters. Second, at other times there are a series of images accompanying a verse. It is then easy to choose one that particularly strikes the viewer as appropriate. (There are over six hundred photos—more than the number of verses in the letters!) Moreover, the quality of the images is ‘as good as it gets.’”
—Urban C. von Wahlde, Professor of New Testament, Loyola University of Chicago; author of The Gospel and Letters of John in the Eerdmans Critical Commentary
