Dictionary of New Testament Background

Book Description
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 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 and later Jewish writings, whether pseudepigraphic, rabbinic, parables, proverbs, histories or inscriptions. Articles abound on aspects of Jewish history, faith and thought, including topics such as 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, patrons and benefactors, travel and trade, intellectual movements and ideas, and ancient geographical perspectives.

No other one-volume reference work offers readers and students of the New Testament so much up-to-date information on the cultural cradle of early Christianity. 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 and compiled 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 will make it the first book to reach for in any investigation of the New Testament in its ancient setting.

About the Author
Craig A. Evans is professor of religious studies and director of the graduate program in biblical studies at Trinity Western University, Langley, British Columbia. He has written extensively on the historical Jesus and the Jewish background of the New Testament era. His numerous publications include Noncanonical Writings and New Testament Interpretation (Hendrickson), Jesus and His Contemporaries: Comparative Studies (Brill) and Mark 8:27--16:20 (Word Biblical Commentary). His edited volumes include (with Bruce Chilton) Studying the Historical Jesus: Evaluations of the State of Current Research (Brill) and (with Peter W. Flint) Eschatology, Messianism, and the Dead Sea Scrolls (Eerdmans).

Stanley E. Porter is research professor in New Testament at the University of Surrey Roehampton, London. He is the author of numerous studies in the New Testament and Greek language, including The Paul of Acts: Essays in Literary Criticism, Rhetoric, and Theology (Mohr Siebeck), Idioms of the Greek New Testament (Sheffield) and Verbal Aspect in the Greek of the New Testament, with Reference to Tense and Mood (Peter Lang). His numerous edited volumes include History of Classical Rhetoric in the Hellenistic Period, 330 B.C.-A.D. 400 (Brill) and Handbook to Exegesis of the New Testament (Brill).

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