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Record Nr.

UNINA9910465030603321

Autore

Koester Helmut <1926->

Titolo

Introduction to the New Testament . Volume 1 History, culture, and religion of the Hellenistic Age / / Helmut Koester

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York ; ; Berlin : , : Walter de Gruyter, , [1995]

©1995

ISBN

3-11-081406-4

Edizione

[Second edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (444 p.)

Collana

Introduction to the New Testament ; ; Vol 1

Disciplina

225.9/5

Soggetti

Hellenism

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"This book is the author's own translation"--Pref., p. xxii.

Translation of chapters 1-6 of: Einführung in das Neue Testament.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographies, glossary, and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface to the Second Edition -- Preface -- Abbreviations, Serial and Journal Titles -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction to the New Testament -- § 1 HISTORICAL SURVEY -- § 2 SOCIETY AND ECONOMICS -- § 3 EDUCATION, LANGUAGE, AND LITERATURE -- § 4 PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION -- § 5 THE PEOPLE OF ISRAEL IN THE HELLENISTIC PERIOD -- § 6 THE ROMAN EMPIRE AS THE HEIR OF HELLENISM -- Index of Names and Places -- Index of Writings -- Short Titles of Works Often Cited

Sommario/riassunto

While the first American edition of this book, published more than a decade ago, was a revised translation of the German book, Einführung in das Neue Testament, this second edition of the first volume of the Introduction to the New Testament is no longer dependent upon a previously published German work. The author hopes that for the student of the New Testament it is a useful introduction into the many complex aspects of the political, cultural, and religious developments that characterized the world in which early Christianity arose and by which the New Testament and other early Christian writings were shaped.