Dictionary of New Testament background
Dictionary of New Testament background
editors, Craig A. Evans, Stanley E. Porter ; project manager, Ginny Evans.
- Downers Grove, Ill. : InterVarsity Press, �2000.
- xxxiv, 1328 pages ; 26 cm
- The IVP Bible dictionary series ; [9] .
- IVP Bible dictionary series ; 9. .
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
How to use this dictionary -- Abbreviations -- Transliterations -- List of contributors -- Dictionary articles -- Scripture index -- Subject index -- Articles index. Preface --
In a time when our knowledge of the ancient Mediterranean world has grown by leaps and bounds, this volume sets out for readers the wealth of Jewish and Greco-Roman background that should inform our reading and understanding of the New Testament and early Christianity. The Dictionary of New Testament Background takes full advantage of the flourishing study of the Dead Sea Scrolls and offers individual articles focused on the most important scrolls. In addition, the Dictionary encompasses the fullness of second-temple Jewish writings, whether pseudepigraphic, rabbinic, parables, proverbs, histories or inscriptions. Articles abound on aspects of Jewish life and thought, including family, purity, liturgy and messianism. The full scope of Greco-Roman culture is displayed in articles ranging across language and rhetoric, literacy and book culture, religion and cults, honor and shame, patronage and benefactors, travel and trade, intellectual movements and ideas, and ancient geographical perspectives.
0830817808 (hardcover : alk. paper) 9780830817801 (hardcover : alk. paper)
00057544
Bible.--New Testament--Dictionaries.
Bible | Kinh Thánh--New Testament | Tân Ước
Nieuwe Testament.
Vroege kerk.
Oudheid.
Dictionaries.
BS2312 / .D53 2000
225.9503 / D5614
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
How to use this dictionary -- Abbreviations -- Transliterations -- List of contributors -- Dictionary articles -- Scripture index -- Subject index -- Articles index. Preface --
In a time when our knowledge of the ancient Mediterranean world has grown by leaps and bounds, this volume sets out for readers the wealth of Jewish and Greco-Roman background that should inform our reading and understanding of the New Testament and early Christianity. The Dictionary of New Testament Background takes full advantage of the flourishing study of the Dead Sea Scrolls and offers individual articles focused on the most important scrolls. In addition, the Dictionary encompasses the fullness of second-temple Jewish writings, whether pseudepigraphic, rabbinic, parables, proverbs, histories or inscriptions. Articles abound on aspects of Jewish life and thought, including family, purity, liturgy and messianism. The full scope of Greco-Roman culture is displayed in articles ranging across language and rhetoric, literacy and book culture, religion and cults, honor and shame, patronage and benefactors, travel and trade, intellectual movements and ideas, and ancient geographical perspectives.
0830817808 (hardcover : alk. paper) 9780830817801 (hardcover : alk. paper)
00057544
Bible.--New Testament--Dictionaries.
Bible | Kinh Thánh--New Testament | Tân Ước
Nieuwe Testament.
Vroege kerk.
Oudheid.
Dictionaries.
BS2312 / .D53 2000
225.9503 / D5614