Early Christian sites

Early Places of Christendom is a travel report by Peter Bamm , which was highly regarded at the time and was first broadcast on the radio and first published as a book in 1955.

Itinerary

The trips that describe the series and the book took place in 1952 and 1953 and took Bamm to the Middle East . The author began in Athens at Paul's places of activity, then visited the monastic republic on Mount Athos , and later the old Constantinople Istanbul . From there, the Bamms led further ventures to Anatolia , then to the Turkish cities of Efes and Tarsus ; later to northern Syrian Aleppo and to Damascus , from where Bamm also came to Ur in the Sumerian region, the home of the ancestor Abraham . The biblical connoisseur also visited places of importance for Christianity in Babylon , Jerusalem and Sinai , but who always knows how to uncover and convey parallels to the neighboring religions , Judaism and Islam , in his entertaining “travel chats” that arose from the impressions of his journey.

Broadcast

The then so-called audio sequences on the early sites of Christianity , which were received on the radio by millions of listeners in Germany in 1954, were tailored entirely to the author, who was able to present his reports himself with great liveliness. Due to the great success with the public, the series was continued for a long time.

Book publication

The book, which has been translated into numerous other languages, developed into a bestseller and has seen over 20 new editions in Germany alone. In 1960 the Kösel-Verlag also published a record with the section Syrian Horizons from the book read by the author . The book was last published in large print in 2003 .