The New Testament in Its World: Part 2

An Introduction to the History, Literature, and Theology of the First Christians

De: N. T. Wright, Michael F. Bird

Narrado por: Richard Littledale

Your ticket from the twenty-first century to the era of Jesus and the first Christians. A listenable, two-volume introduction placing the entire New Testament and early Christianity in its original context, written by distinguished scholar and author N. T. Wright.

An ideal guide for students, The New Testament in Its World addresses the many difficult questions faced by those studying early Christianity, including:

• What was the first century understanding of the Kingdom of God?
• What is the meaning of the resurrection in its original context?
• What were the Gospels, and how did they come about?
• Who was Paul and why are his letters so controversial?

Written for both classroom and personal use, this book brings together decades of ground-breaking research, writing, and teaching into one volume. It presents the New Testament books—along with their subjects: Jesus and the early church—within the historical and social context of Second Temple Judaism and Greco-Roman politics and culture.

The New Testament in Its World allows you to recover the excitement of what it was like to live as Christians in the first or second centuries.

Features include:

• Surveys of each New Testament book that discuss their significance and provides commentary on their contents, along with implications for the Christian life.
• Major sections on the historical Jesus, the resurrection of Jesus, and Paul's chronology and theology.
• Up-to-date discussions of textual criticism and the canonization of the New Testament.
• Frequent illustrations, maps, charts, diagrams, and artwork provide additional explanations and insights.
• A distillation of the life work of N. T. Wright on the New Testament with input from Michael Bird.

Accompanying figures, tables, images, and reference materials are available in the audiobook companion PDF download.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.

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Marvelous Tell of First and Second-Century Times

N.T. Wright and Michael Bird did a magnificent job explaining the world of early believers of Jesus and the hurdles they faced. Divided into nine parts, they looked at the reasons for the New Testament; Jesus’s world (and that of the disciples and surrounding cultures); what resurrection meant to Greek, Roman, and Jewish folk; the authors; and much more.

The only thing I didn’t enjoy was the images/tables that were told of in an accompanying pdf file. Also, the reading was slow, so I sped it up—an easy task. Aside from that, fantastic reading of great scholarship! Ironically, when the authors spoke of how books were copied in the old days, and how a line could be skipped/omitted, only here was a line skipped. (I followed along in the nearly 900-page book. Otherwise, it would not have been noticed.) Great work to both the authors and the narrator!