The New Testament Background: Selected Documents.

Hardback. Very slight shelf wear to top edge of D/J. The author has compiled a selection of those original documents which alone can bring to life the world in which the New testament was written. The student who uses this book can read, in translation and with copious notes, passages from the classical writers, the papyri, the inscriptions, the Hermetica, the mystery religions, Jewish history, and rabbinic and apocalyptic literature, all relevant to the New testament and much of them not readily accessible elsewhere. The selection has been made with the undergraduate reading Theology primarily in mind, but Dr. barrett has not forgotten other classes of readers, particularly those, who, in Church or school, teach the New Testament. 276 pp. ( We carry a wide selection of titles in sci fi fantasy and horror, The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions etc.).