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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Koester, Helmut, 1926-2016.

Series:

Koester, Helmut, 1926- English ; Einführung in das Neue Testament. v. 1.

Introduction to the New Testament ; Vol 1.

Standardized Title:

Einführung in das Neue Testament. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bible. New Testament--History of contemporary events.

Bible.

Bible. New Testament--Introductions.

Hellenism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (444 pages)

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

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

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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

Notes:

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

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

Includes bibliographies, glossary, and indexes.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed November 26, 2013).

ISBN:

9783110814064

3110814064

OCLC:

922947792