Biblical Backgrounds (CHR 213): Reference

Craig Keener covers the entire New Testament providing historical and cultural background to the Roman, Greek and Jewish worlds.

Written by experts in their fields, this wealth of knowledge of the New Testament era is carefully aimed at the needs of contemporary students of the New Testament. With its full bibliographies and cross-references to other volumes, this book is an entire library of scholarship made available in summary form.

The book explores and unpacks the Roman, Greek, and Jewish political, social, religious, and philosophical backgrounds necessary for a good historical understanding of the New Testament and the early church.