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New Testament History: A Narrative Account is unavailable, but you can change that!

Essential to an understanding of the New Testament is a comprehension of the individuals, events, and social movements that shaped the setting from which Jesus and his followers emerged. Unfortunately, many accounts by historians can leave readers feeling overwhelmed and confused. New Testament History provides a worthy solution to this problem. A well-known expert on the social situation of the...

the messenger, the battle was lost. For want of the battle, the war was lost, and all for want of a nail. In this study, when I use the term “history,” I will be referring usually to written history, not to the events themselves. Thus, for example, when I speak about Luke’s history of the early Christian movement as chronicled in Acts, I am not referring directly to the things that happened, but rather to a particular person’s chronicling of the things that happened. This is not an inconsequential
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