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The New Testament World in Pictures

The New Testament World in Pictures

by WilliamH.Stephens (Author)

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    Hardcover 1988

    $4.41
Synopsis

The New Testament World in Pictures is a library of information about the first-century world which lies behind the New Testament, especially the Greco-Roman culture. The religion, superstitions, trades, commerce, family life, city layout, life-style, amusements and dress of this period are covered in considerable depth. The Palestinian and Eastern influences are included in the text briefly to provide the proper context, but the book concentrates on the world confronted by Paul and Christian of the first century. The text and photographs are thoroughly integrated, with the text explaining details in the photographs so extensively that first-century life is documented and clearly described. The photographs depict artefacts from both major and regional museums across the world and architectural features from excavated sites located throughout Europe and the Near East. Information has been gleaned from sources that range from well-known to relatively obscure to provide in one volume an authoritative single source for an understanding of the first-century world. Both subject and Scripture indexes are provided to allow quick access to information in the book, and the text accompanying most of the photographs guide the reader to New Testament text that are illuminated by the information.

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Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 416
 Publisher: Lutterworth Press
Published: 26 Jan 1988
ISBN 10: 0718827015
ISBN 13: 9780718827014

Media Reviews
This is a most informative work on most aspects of life in the New Testament world. Its value is greatly enhanced by the illustrations, which include many pictures of artefacts in daily use. These are integral to the work, and not mere embellishments to the text: each illustration is clearly described in the accompanying caption and its relevance to the whole purpose of the book is shown. This is a most illuminating handbook to the understanding of the New Testament. F.F. Bruce This is a book that will satisfy a strong need. All readers of the New Testament must feel that they would very much like to know more about the background. Here is the answer to this desideratum, with particular reference to the whole pagan complex of the Roman empire. Many books, whatever their subject, offer less than their title promises. Here is a volume that, in many respects, offers enormously more. Often infusing an individual note, it tells us all sorts of things about the entire Mediterranean world - who its emperors and armies and people were, and how those people lived their daily lives and what they did in their homes. No longer can we, for example, think of Paul's Asia Minor as an amorphous mass; we are told what its component parts were, and how they differed from one another. And there are useful bibliographies to each section. Michael Grant
Author Bio
Dr William H. Stephens is a graduate of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary (M. Div.) and The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary (D. Min.). He has written many articles and addressed groups in the US and several other countries, and was for ten years editor of the magazine Biblical Illustrator. Dr. Stephens has been Church Training Curriculum Co-ordinator for Southern Baptists, and is a member of American Schools of Oriental Research and the Society of Biblical Literature.