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The New Testament in Antiquity (2nd Edition): A Survey of the New Testament within Its Cultural Contexts is unavailable, but you can change that!

This completely revised and updated second edition of The New Testament in Antiquity skillfully develops how Jewish, Hellenistic, and Roman cultures formed the essential environment in which the New Testament authors wrote their books and letters. Understanding of the land, history, and culture of the ancient world brings remarkable new insights into how we read the New Testament itself. ...

Of course, the New Testament world shared many values that were understood but unspoken. Today these values are being studied. The advent of modern anthropology gave birth to an interdisciplinary effort to bring these academic skills to the study of the New Testament. Scholars look at the literature of the period, the archaeological remains, and even the evidence of rural village cultures for clues of how to understand the social reflexes presupposed in the Bible. For example, women were responsible
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