The New Testament in Its Social Environment / Edition 1

by John E. Stambaugh, David L. Balch

Overview

This insightful volume in the Library of Early Christianity examines the social, political, and economic world of early Christianity.

The Library of Early Christianity is a series of eight outstanding books exploring the Jewish and Greco-Roman contexts in which the New Testament developed.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780664250126
Publisher:	Westminster John Knox Press
Publication date:	01/01/1986
Series:	Library of Early Christianity
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	212
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)
Lexile:	1380L (what's this?)

About the Author

John E. Stambaugh was Professor of Classics at Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts. He is the author The Ancient Roman City: Ancient Society and History.

David L. Balch is Professor of New Testament at Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary in Berkeley, California. He is the author or coauthor of many books, including Families in the New Testament World: Households and House Churches; Early Christian Families in Context; and Homosexuality, Science, and the "Plain Sense" of Scripture.

Editorial Reviews

Westminster. Mar. 1986. c.192p. $16.95. rel see Grant, Robert M. Gods and the One God.

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