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The influential The New Testament: Its Background and Message provides an excellent, broad-stroke overview of the New Testament, introducing the types of literature found in the New Testament and exploring their background—political, cultural, historical, and religious. In this comprehensive volume, Thomas Lea presents a clear and concise introduction to the New Testament, giving readers the key...

The Persian Period (539–331 B.C.) In the first year of his reign, Cyrus issued a decree allowing the Jews to return home. He released some of the captured temple treasures to them and promised to rebuild the temple at his own expense (Ezra 6:3–5). Most of the Jews remained in the more settled and prosperous surroundings of Cyrus’s kingdom, but a group of forty-two thousand, led by Sheshbazzar, returned to Jerusalem around 537 B.C. (Ezra 1:5–11; 2:64). They began to rebuild the temple, but the work
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