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Description edit
This book recounts the Roman and Jewish context of New Testament times...the lives of John and Jesus, and the history of the first two generations of the Church.
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Characters/People edit
- Paul: Add a description of this character.
- John
- Peter
- James
- Luke
- Pilate
- Mark
- Stephen
- Herod
- Claudius
- Philo
- David
- Simon
- Felix
- Josephus
- Agrippa
- Alexander
- Daniel
- Philip
- Matthew
- Antipas
- Jonathan
- Caesar
- T. W. Manson
- Eleazar
- Justin
- Gaius
- Annas
- Hyrcanus
- Judas Maccabaeus
- Sejanus
- Jeremiah
- Antipater
- Nero
- Mariamme
- Antony
- A. N. Sherwin-white
- Timothy
- Antiochus
- M. Black
- J. Jeremias
- Hillel
- E. M. Smallwood
- Cyrus
- Yahweh
- Judah
Setting & Locations edit
- Jerusalem Temple
- Rome
- Judaea
- London
- Israel
- Qumran
- Alexandria
- Galatia
- Galilee
- Corinth
- Egypt
- Asia
- Syria
- Judaism
- Ephesus
- Sanhedrin
- Palestine
- Macedonia
- Nazareth
- Damascus
- Jordan
- Samaria
- Masada
- Spain
- Antonia
- Athens
- Zechariah
- Caiaphas
- Manchester
- Cambridge
- Hasmonaean
- Paris
- Thessalonica
- Cyprus
- New Testament
- Dead Sea
- Cilicia
- Bithynia
- Cod
- New York
- Vatican
- Samaritan
- Phinehas
- Cyrene
First Sentence edit
The latest narrative books of the Hebrew Bible deal with the period when Judaea, with the rest of Western Asia, formed part of the Persian Empire.
Table of Contents edit
Preface
Principal abbreviations
1. From Cyrus to Augustus
2. The Herodian succession
3. Judean under Roman governors
4. The philosophical schools
5. The high priest
6. Hasidim, Pharisees and Sadducees
7. The Essenes
8. The Zealots
9. The Qumran community
10. The messianic hope
11. Judaism at the beginning of the Christian era
12. John the Baptist
13. Jesus and the kingdom of God
14. Jesus and the kingdoms of world
15. Trial and Execution of Jesus
16. The primitive Jerusalem church
17. Stephen, Philip and the Hellenists
18. Paul: the early years
19. Crisis under Gaius
20. Herod Agrippa, king of the Jews
21. Early gentile Christianity
22. The Jerusalem decree
23. Claudius and Christianity
24. Macedonian and Achaia
25. End of the Aegean mission
26. Judea: the later procurators
27. Paul: the last phase
28. End of church and temple in Jerusalem
29. Christianity in Rome
30. Christianity at the end of the New Testament Period
Bibliography
Indexes
Authors & Contributors edit
- Frederick Bruce (Author)
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 221.95
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