ECPA Gold Medallion (Reference Works) The Dictionary of New
Testament Background joins the Dictionary of Jesus and the Gospels,
the Dictionary of Paul and His Letters and the Dictionary of the
Later New Testament and Its Developments as the fourth in a
landmark series of reference works on the Bible. 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. No other reference work presents so much
in one place for students of the New Testament. Here an entire
library of scholarship is made available in summary form. The
Dictionary of New Testament Background can stand alone or work in
concert with one or more of its companion volumes in the series.
Written by acknowledged 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. And its full
bibliographies and cross-references to other volumes in the series
will make it the first book to reach for in any investigation of
the New Testament in its ancient setting. Reference volumes in the
IVP Bible Dictionary Series provide in-depth treatment of biblical
and theological topics in an accessible, encyclopedia format,
including cross-sectional themes, methods of interpretation,
significant historical or cultural background, and each Old and New
Testament book as a whole.
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