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4 maj 2018 · The name Asia Minor (from the Greek Mikra Asia = Little Asia) was first coined by the Christian historian Orosius (l. c. 375-418 CE) in his work Seven Books of History Against the Pagans in 400 CE to differentiate the main of Asia from that region which had been evangelized by Paul the Apostle (which included sites known from Paul's Epistles in ...
Asia Minor (as the country was called to distinguish it from the continent of Asia), or Anatolia, is the name given to the peninsula which reaches out between the Black Sea (Pontus Euxinus) on the North and the Mediterranean on the South, forming an elevated land-bridge between central Asia and southeastern Europe.
28 mar 2008 · Asia Minor was a region of broad religious diversity in the time of the Tetrarchy and afterwards, under the successor regimes established by Licinius, Constantine and his sons (284–361). Significant communities of Jews and Christians populated its cities and their territories amid the great pagan Greek majority.
8 sty 2019 · The Seven Churches of Asia, addressed by John the Evangelist in the first chapters of his late first-century work Revelation, included the most important centers of western Asia Minor: Ephesus, Laodicea, Pergamum, Philadelphia, Sardis, Smyrna, and Thyatira.
Asia was a term which in the books of the Maccabees actually means Asia Minor, which Antioch III (the Great) had to give up to the Roman province of Asia Proconsularis (formed after 133 B.C.), which embraced the regions of Mysia, Lydia, Caria, and Phrygia (see Rom 16:5; II Tim 1:15; Acts 1:4).
The record of Paul's activity in Asia Minor is found in Acts ch. 13 – 16 and 18 or can be inferred from his Epistles to the Ephesians, Colossians, and Galatians.
Asia is mentioned twenty times in the Bible, all in the New Testament, including fourteen times in the Acts of the Apostles. The 'Asia' in the Bible is not the continent of Asia.
