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Having long served as a standard introduction to the world of the early church, Everett Ferguson’s Backgrounds of Early Christianity has been expanded and updated in this third edition. The book explores and unpacks the Roman, Greek, and Jewish political, social, religious, and philosophical backgrounds necessary for a good historical understanding of the New Testament and the early church. New...

of Hellenistic influence on the Jews, and the variety of their reactions to Hellenism (pp. 428–29), provided only part of the variety in first-century Judaism. There were, moreover, many strands of thought in Judaism—the Wisdom tradition, apocalypticism, messianism, legalism, Hellenism—that frequently overlapped and intermingled. We will make an effort to present this variety by introducing the available sources. We will also make an effort to identify the entity of Judaism by noting its common (if
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