Currently, I am writing two new books for two major publishing houses. The first is a monograph on imperial cults (the worship of the Roman emperor like or as a god) in first century CE Philippi, Thessalonica, and Corinth and Paul the apostle’s responses to them in the letters that he composed to the Christian communities in those cities. This book will contain around 40 pictures of archaeological sites, statuary, coins, and inscriptions from Philippi, Thessalonica, and Corinth, all of which will require permission from the excavations and museums in those cities. 

The second book is a collection of hundreds (!) of inscriptions associated with historical figures, social practices, and customs mentioned in the New Testament for the purpose of helping readers understand and interpret the New Testament more accurately. For each inscription, I will provide the original text, be it Greek, Latin, Aramaic, or Hebrew, a fresh English translation of it, a picture of the inscription, and a discussion of the inscription’s archaeological context and how it relates to the New Testament. In all, this book will contain about 100 pictures, maybe more, of inscriptions from various museums in Europe and the United States. 

Permission to use most of these images costs money; sometimes a lot of it. For example, for my second book, Christ’s Enthronement at God’s Right Hand, which is forthcoming in early 2021, the Vatican Museum charged € 170 to publish two black and white photos of two artifacts on display there.  

What this means is that I need your help and partnership to create these two unique, visually rich books! 

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