{"product_id":"dictionary-of-new-testament-background-a-compendium-of-contemporary-biblical-scholarship-9780830817801","title":"Dictionary of New Testament Background: A Compendium of Contemporary Biblical Scholarship","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eECPA Gold Medallion (Reference Works)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe \u003ci\u003eDictionary of New Testament Background\u003c\/i\u003e joins the \u003ci\u003eDictionary of Jesus and the Gospels, the Dictionary of Paul and His Letters\u003c\/i\u003e and the \u003ci\u003eDictionary of the Later New Testament and Its Developments\u003c\/i\u003e as the fourth in a landmark series of reference works on the Bible. In a time when our knowledge of the ancient Mediterranean world has grown by leaps and bounds, this volume sets out for readers the wealth of Jewish and Greco-Roman background that should inform our reading and understanding of the New Testament and early Christianity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe \u003ci\u003eDictionary of New Testament Background\u003c\/i\u003e takes full advantage of the flourishing study of the Dead Sea Scrolls and offers individual articles focused on the most important scrolls. In addition, the \u003ci\u003eDictionary\u003c\/i\u003e encompasses the fullness of second-temple Jewish writings, whether pseudepigraphic, rabbinic, parables, proverbs, histories or inscriptions. Articles abound on aspects of Jewish life and thought, including family, purity, liturgy and messianism. The full scope of Greco-Roman culture is displayed in articles ranging across language and rhetoric, literacy and book culture, religion and cults, honor and shame, patronage and benefactors, travel and trade, intellectual movements and ideas, and ancient geographical perspectives.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNo other reference work presents so much in one place for students of the New Testament. Here an entire library of scholarship is made available in summary form. The \u003ci\u003eDictionary of New Testament Background\u003c\/i\u003e can stand alone or work in concert with one or more of its companion volumes in the series. Written by acknowledged experts in their fields, this wealth of knowledge of the New Testament era is carefully aimed at the needs of contemporary students of the New Testament. And its full bibliographies and cross-references to other volumes in the series will make it the first book to reach for in any investigation of the New Testament in its ancient setting.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReference volumes in the IVP Bible Dictionary Series provide in-depth treatment of biblical and theological topics in an accessible, encyclopedia format, including cross-sectional themes, methods of interpretation, significant historical or cultural background, and each Old and New Testament book as a whole.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Material:\u003c\/b\u003e Cloth\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eStanley E. Porter (Ph.D., University of Sheffield) is president, dean and professor of New Testament at McMaster Divinity College in Hamilton, Ontario. At McMaster he also holds the Roy A. Hope Chair in Christian Worldview. He is the author of numerous studies in the New Testament and Greek language, including \u003ci\u003eThe Paul of Acts: Essays in Literary Criticism, Rhetoric, and Theology; Idioms of the Greek New Testament\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eVerbal Aspect in the Greek of the New Testament, with Reference to Tense and Mood.\u003c\/i\u003e He has also edited volumes such as \u003ci\u003eHistory of Classical Rhetoric in the Hellenistic Period, 330 B.C.-A.D. 400\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eHandbook to Exegesis of the New Testament.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eCraig A. Evans (PhD, Claremont) is an internationally known and respected New Testament scholar, apologist and author who serves as the John Bisagno Distinguished Professor of Christian Origins at Houston Baptist University. He has written extensively on the historical Jesus and the Jewish background of the New Testament era. A prolific writer, Evans has published more than seventy books and over 500 journal articles and reviews, and his books have been translated into several languages. His academic and popular books include \u003ci\u003eJesus and the Jihadis\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eFabricating Jesus\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eFrom Jesus to the Church: The First Christian Generation\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eJesus, The Final Days: What Really Happened\u003c\/i\u003e (co-authored with N. T. Wright), \u003ci\u003eJesus and His Contemporaries\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMatthew\u003c\/i\u003e (in the Word Biblical Commentary) and \u003ci\u003eAncient Texts for New Testament Studies\u003c\/i\u003e. His edited volumes include \u003ci\u003eStudying the Historical Jesus\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eDictionary of New Testament Background\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eChristian Beginnings and the Dead Sea Scrolls\u003c\/i\u003e. Evans has lectured at several prominent universities and seminaries around the world, including Cambridge, Durham and Oxford in the United Kingdom, Princeton and Yale in the United States, and Hebrew University and Ben Gurion University in Israel. Uniquely skilled to communicate biblical scholarship through the media, Dr. Evans has reaffirmed the uniqueness and supremacy of Jesus Christ to millions of people on television, radio and in print media including \u003ci\u003eDateline NBC\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNational Geographic Channel\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eDiscovery Channel\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe History Channel\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe BBC\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGlobal TV\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e. In addition, he served as consultant for \u003ci\u003eThe Bible\u003c\/i\u003e television miniseries, viewed by over 100 million Americans.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"IVP Academic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50648920621330,"sku":"9780830817801","price":53.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_a3278deb-83fc-420b-99df-f8a14c2af102.jpg?v=1733252813","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/dictionary-of-new-testament-background-a-compendium-of-contemporary-biblical-scholarship-9780830817801","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}