Dictionary of New Testament background / editors, Craig A. Evans, Stanley E. Porter ; project manager, Ginny Evans.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Evans, Craig A. (Craig Alan), 1952-

Porter, Stanley E., 1956- editor.

Evans, Ginny.

Series:

The IVP Bible Dictionary Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bible. New Testament--Dictionaries.

Bible.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1362 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Downers Grove, Illinois : InterVarsity Press, [2000]

Summary:

Written by known experts and edited by Craig A. Evans and Stanley E. Porter, this reference work with its full bibliographies and cross-references to other volumes in the series is the best for researching the New Testament in its ancient setting.

Contents:

Intro

Title Page

Project Staff

Contents

Preface

How to Use This Dictionary

Abbreviations

Transliteration of Hebrew and Greek

Contributors

Dictionary Articles

A

Abba Ḥilqiah

Abraham

Adam and Eve, literature concerning

Administration, roman

Adultery, divorce

Affliction lists

Afterlife

Ahiqar

Alchemy

Alexander the great

Alexandria

Alexandrian library

Alexandrian scholarship

Amram, visions of

Amulets

Ancestors

Angelic Liturgy

Angels of the nations

Antioch (Pisidia)

Antioch (Syria)

Antiochids

Antipas

Apocalypse of Abraham

Apocalypse of Zephaniah

Apocalyptic literature

Apocalypticism

Apocrypha and pseudepigrapha

Apocrypha of Moses (1Q29, 4Q374-377, 4Q408)

Apocryphal acts and epistles

Apocryphal and pseudepigraphical sources in the New Testament

Apocryphal Gospels

Apocryphon of Jeremiah

Apocryphon of Joseph (4Q371-372, 539)

Apocryphon of Joshua (4Q378-379)

Apollonius of Tyana

Apostolic Fathers

Apotheosis

Aquila

Aramaic language

Aramaic Targumim: Qumran

Archaeology and the New Testament

Archaeology of the land of Israel

Archelaus

Arenas

Aristeas, Epistle of

Aristobulus

Aristotle, Aristotelianism

Army, Roman

Art and Architecture: Greco-roman

Art and Architecture: Jewish

Artapanus

Ascension of Isaiah

Asia Minor

Associations

Assumption of Moses

Astrology

Astrology, Jewish

Athens

Athletics

Auxiliaries

B

Babatha archive

Bagasraw, Tale of

Banquets

Bar Kokhba Letters

Barki Nafshi (4Q434, 436, 437-439)

Baruch, Books of

Beatitudes text (4Q525)

Belial, Beliar, Devil, Satan

Benefactor

Betrothal

Biblical interpretation, Jewish

Bibliomancy

Biography, Ancient

Birth of the Chosen One (4Q534)

Boethusians.

Book Culture

Book of Blessings (1QSb)

Book of Mysteries (4Q299-301 &amp

1Q27).

Brontologion

Burial Practices, Jewish

C

Caesarea Maritima

Caesarea Philippi

Caesar's Household

Caiaphas Ossuary

Calendars, Jewish

Calendars, Roman

Canonical Formation of the New Testament

Catena (4Q177)

Cave 7 Fragments (Qumran)

Celibacy

Census

Centurion

Childbearing

Children in Late Antiquity

Chronology, New Testament

Cicero

Circuses and Games

Cities, Greco-Roman

Citizenship, Roman

Civic Cults

Cleodemus-Malchus

Coinage: Greco-Roman

Coinage: Jewish

Colossae

Commerce

Concubinage

Consolations/Tanḥumin (4Q176)

Copper Scroll (3Q15)

Coptic New Testament

Corinth

Creeds and Hymns

Cumaean Sibyl

Cumanus, Ventidius

Cynic Epistles

Cynicism and Skepticism

D

Daily Prayers (4Q503).

Damascus Document (CD and QD)

Daniel, Esther and Jeremiah, Additions to

Dead Sea Scrolls: General Introduction

Decapolis

Decurions

Delphic oracle

Demetrius

Demonology

Destruction of Jerusalem

Devil

Diadochi

Diaspora judaism

Diatessaron

Diatribe

Dietary Laws, Jewish

Dionysius of Halicarnassus

Divination

Divorce

Domestic Religion and Practices

Dositheans

Dowry

Dreams and Divination

Dualism

E

Ecclesiasticus

Economics of Palestine

Edict of Claudius

Education: Jewish and Greco-Roman

Egyptian, the

Eleazar The Exorcist

Elect of God (4Q534)

Emperors

Enoch, Books of

Enosh

Ephesus

Epictetus

Epicureanism

Epigraphy

Epistolary theory

Equestrian order

Eschatologies of late antiquity

Esdras, Books of

1 Esdras

Essenes

Esther, Additions to

Ethnography, Ancient

Eupolemus

Exile

Exorcism

Exposure of Infants

Extramarital Sexual Intercourse.

Ezekiel the tragedian

F

False prophecy

Family and household

Fate

Felix

Festivals and Holy Days: Greco-Roman

Festivals and Holy Days: Jewish

Florilegium (4Q174)

Fourth Philosophy

Freedmen

Friendship

G

Galatia, Galatians

Galilee

Gallio Inscription

Games

Gender Roles

Genesis Apocryphon (1QapGen)

Genres of the New Testament

Geographical Perspectives in Late Antiquity

Gnosticism

Godfearers

Gods

Governors

Grammarians, Hellenistic Greek

Greece and Macedon

Greek of the New Testament

Greek Old Testament

Greek Papyri, Palestinian

Gymnasia and Baths

H

Habakkuk commentary (1QpHab)

Halakha A (4Q251)

Ḥanina Ben Dosa

Harvesting/Leqet Text (4Q284a)

Hasmoneans

Head Coverings

Healing and Healing Miracles

Heavenly Ascent in Jewish and Pagan Traditions

Hebraism

Hebrew Bible

Hebrew Language

Hebrew Matthew

Hekhalot Literature

Hellenism

Hellenistic Egypt

Hellenistic Judaism

Hermeticism

Herod the great

Herodian dynasty

Herodians

Herodotus of Halicarnassus

Heroes

Hillel, house of

Hippocratic letters

Historians, Greco-Roman

Historians, Jewish

Historiography, ancient

History, Jewish

Holy days

Holy Land

Holy Men, Jewish

Holy Spirit

Homily, ancient

Homoeroticism

Homosexual intercourse

Ḥoni the circle drawer

Honor and Shame

Horography, ancient

Horoscope text (4Q186)

Hospitality

Household

Household codes

Household cult

Husbands

Hymns

I

Idolatry, Jewish Conception Of

Incest

Infanticide

Inscriptions and Papyri: Greco-Roman

Inscriptions and Papyri: Jewish

Instruction and discipline

Intertextuality, Biblical

Isaiah Scrolls (1QISAIAHa,b)

Israel, land of

J

Jeremiah, additions to

Jerusalem

Jesus Ben Ananias.

Jewish communities in Asia Minor

Jewish History: Greek Period

Jewish History: Persian Period

Jewish History: Roman Period

Jewish Holy Men

Jewish Literature: Historians and Poets

Jewish wars with Rome

Job

Jonathan the refugee

Joseph and Aseneth

Josephus: Interpretive methods and tendencies

Josephus: Value for New Testament study

Jubilees

Judaism and the New Testament

Judas the Galilean

Judea

Judith

K

Kingdom of God

Kinship

Kissing

L

Land of Israel

Languages

Latin language

Latin New Testament

Law/Nomos in Greco-Roman world

Legal texts at Qumran

Legion

Legionary

Leqet/Harvesting Text (4Q284a)

Letters, Greco-Roman

Literacy and book culture

Literature

Liturgy: Qumran

Liturgy: Rabbinic

Lives of the Prophets

Lucian of Samosata

M

1 and 2 Maccabees

3 and 4 Maccabees

Macedon

Magical papyri

Manasseh

Manual of discipline

Manumission

Manuscripts, Greek New Testament

Manuscripts, Greek Old Testament

Maria the Jewish Alchemist

Marriage

Martyrdom Tradition, Jewish

Masada

Masada Texts

Masoretic Text

Matthew's Gospel in Hebrew

Melchizedek, Traditions of

Messianic Apocalypse (4Q521)

Messianic Rule

Messianism

Midrashim

Military, Roman

Milk

Miqṣat Ma ʿaśey Ha-Torah (4QMMT)

Miracles and Healing

Mishnah and Tosefta

MMT

Monogamy

Moses

Music

Musonius Rufus

Mysteries

Mysticism

N

Nabonidus.

Narrative A (4Q458)

Narrative and Psalmic Work (4Q371-372, 539)

Navy, Roman

Naḥal Ḥever Texts

Neo-Pythagoreanism

New Jerusalem Texts

New Testament Versions, Ancient

Nomos

Novels

Nurses, Wet

O

Odes of Solomon

Old Testament Versions, Ancient

Oracles

Ordinances (4Q159, 4Q513, 4Q514)

Ossuaries

P.

Pagan Sources in the New Testament

Pantheon, Greek and Roman

Papyri, Palestinian

Papyri

Parables

Parents

Paterfamilias

Patronage

Pax Romana

Peregrini

Persecution

Pesharim

Pesher habakkuk

Peshitta

Pharisees

Philip the tetrarch

Philippi

Philo

Philosophy

Phylacteries/Tepillin, qumran

Piety, Jewish

Pilate inscription

Pisidian antioch

Plato, platonism

Platonism

Plebs

Pliny the elder

Pliny the younger

Plutarch

Poetry, hellenistic

Poets, Jewish

Political System, Roman

Polytheism, Greco-Roman

Pompey

Pontius Pilate

Porcius Festus

Praetorian Guard

Prayer of Enosh (4Q369 + 4Q458)

Prayer of Manasseh

Prayer of Nabonidus (4Q242) and Pseudo-Daniel (4Q243-245)

Prefect

Premarital sexual intercourse

Priene inscription

Priests and priesthood, Jewish

Prison, prisoner

Proconsul

Procurator

Promised Land

Prophets and Prophecy

Proselytism and godfearers

Prostitution

Proverbs

Psalms and hymns of qumran

Psalms of Solomon

Pseudo-Daniel (4Q243-245)

Pseudo-Eupolemus

Pseudo-Ezekiel

Pseudonymity and pseudepigraphy

Pseudo-Orpheus

Pseudo-philo

Pseudo-Phocylides

Pseudo-Prophets (4Q385-388, 390-391)

Ptolemies

Publicani

Purification Liturgy (4Q284)

Purification texts (4Q274-279, 281-284, 512-514)

Purity

Pythagoreanism

Pythian Oracles

Q

Qahat

Qumran Cave 7

Qumran: Place and History

R

Rabbinic Literature: Midrashim

Rabbinic Literature: Mishnah and Tosefta

Rabbinic literature: Talmud

Rabbinic literature: Targumim

Rabbinic Parables

Rabbinic proverbs

Rabbis

Reading

Rebukes by the overseer (4Q477).

Religion, Greco-Roman

Religion, personal

Restoration of Israel

Resurrection

Revolutionary Movements, Jewish

Revolutionary Prophets.

Reworked Pentateuch (4Q158, 4Q364-367).

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

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ISBN:

9781785391453

1785391453

9780830867349

0830867341

OCLC:

1057689359