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Dictionary of New Testament Background (The IVP Bible Dictionary Series)

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2001 ECPA Gold Medallion (Reference Works) The Dictionary of New Testament Background joins the Dictionary of Jesus and the Gospels, the Dictionary of Paul and His Letters and the Dictionary of the Later New Testament and Its Developments as the fourth in a landmark series of reference works on the Bible. In a time when our knowledge of the ancient Mediterranean world has grown by leaps and bounds, this volume sets out for readers the wealth of Jewish and Greco-Roman background that are meant to inform our reading and understanding of the New Testament and early Christianity. The Dictionary of New Testament Background takes full benefit of the flourishing study of the Dead Sea Scrolls and offers individual articles focused on a very powerful scrolls. In addition, the Dictionary encompasses the fullness of second-temple Jewish writings, whether pseudepigraphic, rabbinic, parables, proverbs, histories or inscriptions. Articles abound on aspects of Jewish life and thought, including circle of relatives, purity, liturgy and messianism. The full scope of Greco-Roman culture is displayed in articles ranging across language and rhetoric, literacy and book culture, religion and cults, honor and shame, patronage and benefactors, shuttle and trade, intellectual movements and ideas, and ancient geographical perspectives. No other reference work presents such a lot in one place for students of the New Testament. Here an entire library of scholarship is made to be had in summary form. The Dictionary of New Testament Background can stand alone or work in concert with a number of of its companion volumes in the series. Written by acknowledged experts in their fields, this wealth of knowledge of the New Testament era is carefully aimed at the needs of recent students of the New Testament. And its full bibliographies and cross-references to other volumes in the series will make it the first book to achieve for in any investigation of the New Testament in its ancient setting.

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