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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...

Babylonia under the auspices of their new Persian rulers. The very name “Jews” (derived from Judah) attests the importance of the survivors of the southern kingdom for the continued existence of the chosen people. Cyrus reversed the policies of the Assyrians (cf. 2 Kings 17) and Babylonians (cf. 2 Kings 24–25) by encouraging peoples to return to their homelands and by supporting local institutions under the oversight of the royal administration. Since the Hebrew order of the Old Testament books places
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