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Discovering the New Testament: An Introduction to Its Background, Theology, and Themes, Volume I: The Gospels & Acts is unavailable, but you can change that!

Discovering the New Testament is a new and comprehensive introduction to the New Testament in three volumes, reflecting current research and scholarship in New Testament studies. Each volume provides a thorough discussion of background issues as well as treating theological themes and practical application. The first volume on the Gospels and Acts covers Jewish and Greco-Roman backgrounds,...

In some Jewish traditions, the temple was supposedly built on the stone where God first created Adam, where Abraham bought Isaac for sacrifice (Mount Moriah) and where Jacob wrestled with an angel. David, a man of war, was not permitted to build the temple; his son Solomon oversaw construction of the first temple around 900 BC (1 Kgs 6–9). This temple was destroyed by the Babylonians under Nebuchadnezzar in 586 BC (2 Kgs 25). The second temple, built by
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