New Testament Background and Context

New Testament Background and Context January 22, 2021

Note the sections below: General Resources, Jewish History and Literature, Greco-Roman Literature and Context, Primary Sources and Translationsand Other Resources


General Resources

Dictionary of New Testament Background [<– Click Here]

 

 

 

Warren Carter, Seven Events That Shaped the New Testament World

 

 

 

David A. deSilva, Honor, Patronage, Kinship, and Purity: Unlocking New Testament Culture

 

 

 

Craig A. Evans, Ancient Texts for New Testament Studies

 

 

 

Joel Green and Lee Martin McDonald, ed. The World of the New Testament: Cultural, Social, and Historical Contexts [<– Click Here]

 

 

 

Craig S. Keener, The IVP Bible Background Commentary: New Testament

 

 

 

N.T. Wright, The New Testament and the People of God

 

 

 


Jewish History and Literature

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Shaye Cohen, From the Maccabees to the Mishnah

 

 

 

John J. Collins and Daniel C. Harlow, ed. The Eerdmans Dictionary of Early Judaism [<– Click Here]

 

 

 

David deSilva, Introducing the Apocrypha, 2nd ed. 

 

 

 

Susan Docherty, The Jewish Pseudepigrapha: An Introduction to the Literature of the Second Temple Period [<– Click Here]

 

 

 

James D.G. Dunn, The Parting of the Ways: Between Christianity and Judaism and Their Significance for the Character of Christianity

 

 

 

Daniel M. Gurner,  Introducing the Pseudepigrapha of Second Temple Judaism

 

 

 

Matthias Henze, Mind the Gap: How the Jewish Writings between the Old and New Testament Help Us Understand Jesus [<– Click Here]

 

 

Steve Mason, Josephus and the New Testament, 2nd ed.

 

 

 

E.P. Sanders, Judaism: Practice and Belief, 63 BCE-66 CE

 

 

 

Oskar Skarsaune, In the Shadow of the Temple: Jewish Influences on Early Christianity

 

 

 

Kenneth Schenck, A Brief Guide to Philo

 

 

 

James VanderKam, The Dead Sea Scrolls Today, Revised Edition

 

 

 


Greco-Roman Literature and Context

coming soon


Primary Sources and Translations

coming soon

SEPTUAGINTA New English Translation of the Septuagint

 

 

 

OT PSEUDEPIGRAPHA: The Old Testament Pseudepigrapha (Charlesworth)

 

 

JOSEPHUSThe Complete Works

 

 

 

PHILOThe Works of Philo

 

 

 

DEAD SEA SCROLLS: The Dead Sea Scrolls, Study Edition

 

 

 


Other Resources

coming soon

Reading Romans in Context: Paul and Second Temple Judaism

 

 

 

Reading Revelation in Context: John’s Apocalypse and Second Temple Judaism

 

 

Reading Mark in Context: Jesus and Second Temple Judaism

 


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