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The pathway to understanding the New Testament leads through the vibrant landscape of the first-century Greco-Roman world. The New Testament is rooted in the concrete historical events of that world. In Jesus and the Rise of Early Christianity Paul Barnett not only places the New Testament within that world of Caesars and Herods, proconsuls and Pharisees, Sadducees and revolutionaries, but...

During the period 300–200 B.C. Palestine was part of the Greco-Egyptian empire based in Alexandria. The rule of ancient Egypt was continued by the intermarriage of the descendants of the Pharaohs with the Macedonian invaders. The first new ruler was Ptolemy, who gave his name to the kingdom and empire that he founded. Palestine was part of that empire, becoming an extension of Egypt. In Palestine as in Egypt proper, the Ptolemies created major administrative units that they called hyparchies. The
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