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The third of IVP’s critically acclaimed series of dictionaries of the New Testament provides focused study on the often-neglected portions of the New Testament: Acts, Hebrews, the General Epistles and Revelation. Furthermore, its scope goes beyond the life of the New Testament church to include the work of the apostolic fathers and early Christianity up through the middle of the second century. ...

the “end times” (see Marshall 1978 “Slippery Words”). For them the end times were not a period coming only at the final phase of history. This can be illustrated by the phrase “latter days” (or similar expressions), which occurs numerous times in the NT and rarely refers exclusively to the end of history as we think of it. Without exception it is used to describe the end times as beginning in the events associated with the life, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ (see Death of Christ). 1. Background