The New Testament in Antiquity: A Survey of the New Testament within Its Cultural Context
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| Rating | : | 4.75 (975 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0310244951 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 480 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-07-28 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
This book strikes a balance between being accessible to all students and challenging them to explore the depths of the New Testament within its cultural worlds. It argues that knowing the land, history, and culture of this world brings remarkable new insights into how we read the New Testament itself. Their challenge was to build a text that would be engaging, academically robust, richly illustrated, and relevant to the modern student. The New Testament in Antiquity carefully develops how Jewish and Hellenistic cultures formed the essential environment in which the New Testament authors wrote their books and letters. The New Testament in Antiquity is a textbook for college and seminary students penned by three evangelical scholars with over fifty years of combined experience in the classroom. Numerous sidebars provide windows into the Jewish, Hellenistic, and Roman worlds and integrate this material directly with the interpretation of the literature of the New Testament. This is an ideal introductory text for classroom use, with ample discussion questions and bibliographies.
“Complete with an extraordinary array of visual illustrations, this book covers important topics needed for an introductory text in New Testament in a way that is both understandable and well-informed. Keener“one of the best introductions and surveys in recent times. Remarkably attractive in its layout, with color pictures, color pictures, charts, diagrams and sidebars galore If it's backgrounds you want to highlight in a one-semester introduction to the New Testament, this is the text to assign.” -- Craig L. Blomberg, PhD . It emphasizes many details that help students discover the biblical text in new ways they would rarely get on their own.” -- Craig S
Cohick (PhD in New Testament/Christian Origins, University of Pennsylvania) is professor of New Testament in the Department of Biblical and Theological Studies at Wheaton College and Graduate School, Wheaton, Illinois. Green (PhD, Kings College, Aberdeen University) professor of New Testament at Wheaton College and Graduate School. Burge (PhD, King's College, Aberdeen University) is a professo
"Great Reference Book" according to W. Wisener. This book is very informative and helps make history come alive with great diagrams, pictures and interesting narratives. Helps to transform your understanding of antiquity and thus better understand the biblical contex in a more in-depth manner.. Ploughing a little deeper and enjoying all the pictures If you are studying the New Testament Bible and want a deeper understanding as well as a closer time-space link to the people, places, things, beliefs - this is a must have. You will really grow in your understanding of the life of Jesus and his mission.. Wow A. E. Russell This book is EXCELLENT. I am not seminary trained however, I do understand the need for exegesis and historical context when studying the bible for teaching/praeching purposes. This book has helped to bring into sharp focus several texts that I recently preached/taught. It paid for itself the first time I opened it and used it. I would recommend to anyone that wants to understand the historical context behind the biblical texts.