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Dictionary of New Testament background editors, Craig A. Evans, Stanley E. Porter ; project manager, Ginny Evans.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Series: IVP Bible dictionary series ; 9.Publication details: Downers Grove, Ill. : InterVarsity Press, �2000.Description: xxxiv, 1328 pages ; 26 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0830817808 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  • 9780830817801 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Online version:: Dictionary of New Testament background.DDC classification:
  • 225.9503 21 D5614
LOC classification:
  • BS2312 .D53 2000
Contents:
Preface -- How to use this dictionary -- Abbreviations -- Transliterations -- List of contributors -- Dictionary articles -- Scripture index -- Subject index -- Articles index.
Summary: 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.Summary: 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.
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Preface -- How to use this dictionary -- Abbreviations -- Transliterations -- List of contributors -- Dictionary articles -- Scripture index -- Subject index -- Articles index.

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.

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