The world surrounding Paul and the assemblies comes vividly to life here. Documents and Images for the Study of Paul gathers representative texts illustrating Jewish practices, Greco-Roman moral exhortation, biblical...
A Christian never gains all that Scripture offers by reading it with just one approach. Yet too often this is attempted--whether through an academic obsession with the historical-critical method or through a consumerist...
A selection of sources for the cultural and political context of the early Roman Empire and the New Testament writings, this book includes public speeches, official inscriptions, annals, essays, poems, and documents of veiled...