The world of Jesus
Subtitle: making sense of the people and places of Jesus' day
By: Dr. William H. Marty
Publisher: Bethany House Publishers, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 185
ISBN-13: 9780764210839
Subjects: Bible; Judaism; Jews; Historicity; Church history; History; History of contemporary events
Description: "Bible professor teaches readers about the world Jesus lived in and the time between the Old and New Testaments"--Provided by publisher.
Table of contents: title: Homeward bound: the Persian period; title: Alexander the Great: the apostle of Hellenism: the Greek period; title: A courageous priest and his sons: the Maccabean revolt; title: A house divided against itself cannot stand: the Hasmonean period; title: Herod the Great: "The Client King": the Roman period: Part I; title: "The paranoid king": the Roman period: Part II; title: Jesus and the Herodians: the early church and the Herodians; title: When religion gets sick.