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Jesus in Context: Background Readings for Gospel Study is unavailable, but you can change that!

Crucial to a proper understanding and interpretation of Scripture is an awareness of the historical, cultural, and religious context in which the Bible was written. But the passing of two millennia often prevents the modern student from fully understanding the significance of various actions and teachings of Jesus in the Gospels. For instance, the controversy over Jesus’ healing on the Sabbath...

and faithful to God in the midst of what seemed a divine judgment that had brought the nations into Jewish land. A final, important source of material is the works of the church fathers. The church fathers wrote to, or in defense of, the church in the generations after Jesus. Although these texts were written after the Gospels, they sometimes contain traditions from the apostolic period. The writings of the church fathers are available in collections grouped by time period. The earliest post-New
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