Exploring the New Testament world /
Explores the characteristics of the world at the time the events of the New Testament would have occurred. Discusses what societies were like during this period and how the way people lived would have influenced their perception of events taking place.
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Nashville :
T. Nelson Publishers,
©1998.
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Table of Contents:
- Why this book?
- The Judaic background of the New Testament
- "The powers that be"
- Roman law and the New Testament
- Greco-Roman religion
- Greco-Roman philosophy
- The structures of Greco-Roman society
- Greco-Roman morality and personal relations
- Time, distance, and travel in the Roman world
- Knowing and believing.