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{en} Bruce W Longenecker, Elizabeth E Shively and T.J. Lang, eds. Behind the Scenes of the New Testament: Cultural, Social, and Historical Contexts (Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2024).

Abstract

"A team of world-class scholars covers the full range of New Testament backgrounds studies in a concise, authoritative, and comprehensive manner"--

Contents

Setting the stage -- Symbolic worlds -- Judaism / Matthew V. Novenson -- Hellenization / Carl R. Holladay -- Apocalyptic thought / John J. Collins -- Greek and Roman philosophical schools / Te-Li Lau -- Places -- Jerusalem, Judean uprising, Temple destruction / Steve Mason -- Territories of Roman Palestine / Jürgen K. Zangenberg -- Urban centers of the Roman world / Jan Rüggemeier -- The Decapolis / Roy Ciampa -- The synagogue in the time of Jesus and the New Testament / Eric M. Meyers -- Temples / Timothy Wardle -- Greco-Roman material culture / David W. J. Gill -- Houses and meeting places / Richard Last -- Inhabiting the stage -- Scripts -- The Septuagint and the transmission of Jewish scriptures / Kristin De Troyer -- Qumran and the context of the New Testament / Matthew A. Collins -- Historiography / Loveday Alexander -- Ancient biography and the Gospels / Helen K. Bond -- The parables of Jesus / Klyne R. Snodgrass -- Letters and letter writing / Joshua W. Jipp -- Poetic and hymnic material in the New Testament / Andrew T. Cowan, Jennifer Strawbridge -- Practices of interpretation / Susan Docherty -- Reading strategies in the Greco-Roman world / Maren R. Niehoff -- Actors -- The Herodian dynasty / Morten Hørning Jensen -- Messiahs and revolutionaries / Max Botner -- Judean social classes / Benjamin D. Gordon -- Itinerant religious experts / Heidi Wendt -- Gentiles in Judean eyes / Hannah K. Harrington -- Judeans in Gentile eyes / Paul Trebilco -- Samaritans / Magnar Kartveit -- Women in the ancient Mediterranean world / Susan E. Benton -- Masculinities / Peter-Ben Smit -- Disabled bodies / Louise J. Lawrence -- Themes on the stage -- Divine society -- Theos and theology / T. J. Lang -- Cosmology / Jamie Davies -- Eschatologies and the afterlife / Thomas D. McGlothlin -- Angels and demons / Robert E. Moses -- Prophecy, divination, oracles, and dreams / Jill E. Marshall -- Magic, medicine, and miracles / Jennifer Eyl -- Purity and holiness / Matthew Thiessen -- Festivals and feasts / Gary M. Burge -- Imperial devotion / Adam Winn -- Persecution, suffering, and martyrdom / Dorothea H. Bertschmann -- Mystery cults / Jan N. Bremmer -- Moral transformation and ethics / Max J. Lee -- Sacrifice / David M. Moffitt -- Human society -- The Roman Empire / Sylvia C. Keesmaat -- Roman law and citizenship / J. Brian Tucker -- Greco-Roman associations / Jin Hwan Lee -- Wealth and poverty / MiJa Wi -- Gift-giving / John M. G. Barclay -- Alms for the poor / Nathan Eubank -- Hospitality / Andrew E. Arterbury -- Meals and symposia / Paul B. Duff -- Coins and culture / David H. Wenkel -- Race and ethnicity / Eric D. Barreto -- The household -- Household structure / Judith M. Gundry -- Sexuality / William Loader -- Marriage and divorce / Alicia D. Myers -- Widows / Timothy J. Murray -- Household worship / Caroline Johnson Hodge -- Slavery / Katherine A. Shaner -- Literacy and education / Teresa Morgan -- Death and burial practices / Daniel L. Smith, William L. Potter.

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