Note the sections below: General Resources, Jewish History and Literature, Greco-Roman Literature and Context, Primary Sources and Translations, and 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
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Primary Sources and Translations
coming soon
SEPTUAGINT: A New English Translation of the Septuagint
OT PSEUDEPIGRAPHA: The Old Testament Pseudepigrapha (Charlesworth)
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