In this work, Ben Witherington places the New Testament in its century (6 BC – 100 AD), which he brings to life through the fascinating and documented evocation of the back political, social, economic and religious plan of that time. Indeed, as he writes, “the messianic movement initiated by Jesus did not arise as an isolated phenomenon in the landscape of Jewish history. The appearance of the Church is not an example of creatio ex nihilo. Things must be considered in context.”
A talented narrator, he literally makes the reader travel and stay with the actors of this time in the eastern part of the Mediterranean basin from the time of Alexander the Great to that of Emperor Domitian.
In these pages, the author acts as a historian and attempts to assemble and interpret data from the main sources – canonical, Jewish and pagan – but also the epigraphic and numismatic indications provided by archaeological excavations, as well as the sum of our current knowledge of Jewish history and Roman history. At the same time it shows the influence that the New Testament had on the history of that time.
With this History of the New Testament and its century, the French-speaking public now has a reference work unique in its scope, its accessibility, its richness and its topicality.
Author: Ben Witherington
ISBN: 9782914144780