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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...

too much background information becoming the foreground of one’s historical analysis;1 nonetheless, a thick description of the social and religious setting can help provide the necessary context for the proper interpretation of the various words and deeds of Jesus and his followers. For example, the aphorism “Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and unto God the things that are God’s” (Mark 12:17) in its original setting is not likely to have meant an endorsement by Jesus of the notion
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