The New Testament background
Subtitle: selected documents
By: edited, with introductions and notes by C.K. Barrett.
Edition: Rev. ed.
Publisher: Harper & Row
Published: 1989
Place of publication: San Francisco
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 361
ISBN-13: 9780060608811
Subjects: Bible. N.T. -- History of contemporary events.
Notes: Bibliography: p. [xxiii]-xxix.
Includes indexes.
Table of contents: title: The Roman Empire; title: The papyri; title: Inscriptions; title: The philosophers and poets; title: Gnosis and Gnosticism; title: Mystery religions; title: Jewish history; title: Rabbinic literature and Rabbinic Judaism; title: Qumran; title: Philo; title: Josephus; title: Septuagint and Targum; title: Apocalyptic