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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...

New Testament. Hence, they are known primarily for those points on which they differed from the Pharisees; that is, they are known negatively and not for positive things for which they stood. The Sadducees accepted only the written law of Moses as authoritative and rejected the oral law of the Pharisees. Of course, they had their own traditions of interpretation relative to the temple ritual and legal matters, but these were not Torah and were not binding. Even the prophets and writings, although
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