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Making sense of the New Testament requires navigating a labyrinth of different cultural, religious, political, and economic groups that existed in first-century Jewish society—as well as in the Roman Empire at large. In this introduction to the major people groups of the New Testament world, William Simmons clarifies New Testament history and teaching. He provides a historical analysis of major...

planted the seeds that eventually germinated and grew into the sect of the Pharisees.7 In 597 B.C.E. Nebuchadnezzar, king of the Babylonians, overran Judea and captured Jerusalem. His plan was to reduce Israel to a slave state. To this end he destroyed the temple, confiscating the sacred vessels (Jer 28:1–6), and carried away the most talented Jews to Babylon, including Daniel and Ezekiel. Nebuchadnezzar had no need for the “poorest people
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