Dictionary of New Testament Background.

Octavo, black cloth (hardcover), xxxiv, 1328 pp. Fine in a Fine dust jacket. From dust jacket: 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 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 Testmane 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 and later JEwish writings, whether pseudepigraphic, rabbinic, parables, proverbs, histories or inscriptions. Articles abound on aspects of Jewish history, faith and though, including topics such as family, purity, litergy and messianism. The full schope of Greco-Roman culture is displayed inarticles ranging across language and rhetoric, literacy and book culture, religion and cults, honor and shame, patrons and benefactors, travel and trade, intelectual movements and ideas, and ancient geographical perspectives. Religion, Christianity, Ancient Civilization. nslic.…