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\"Qumran.jpg\"<\/a><\/span>No passage in the New Testament ever describes the groups it assumes everyone knows. Yet, we beg for those descriptions and so scholars over the years have sketched and re-sketched, and then discarded and reconstructed what can be known about those groups. The most recent, and thoroughly readable \u2014 and every church library needs this book and I would say pastors need it and students need to know about it to save them a million errors of caricature \u2014 book that sketches these people is by William A. Simmons<\/a>. The book is called Peoples of the New Testament World: An Illustrated Guide<\/a>\"\"
\n<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n

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So, you ask, what\u2019s in the book?<\/div>\n
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Illustrations aplenty and discussions of Pharisees, Sadducees, Scribes, Zealots, tax collectors, sinners, people of the land, Samaritans, John the Baptist, Hebrews, Hellenists, Charlatans-Exorcists-magicians, Herodians, Roman rulers, centurions, patrons-clients, Greek philosophers, and slaves and free. And a splendid, colorful introduction to the historical context of the New Testament.<\/div>\n
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The book will be of eminent use to professors and teachers as a textbook or as a book to whom students can be sent for an initial sketch of the various groups.\u00a0<\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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