Böcker av Howard Clark Kee

An examination of the social, economic, political and cultural context of first century Judaism. Precipitated by the coming of the Romans in the century before, Judaism experienced a crisis of cultural erosion in the first century AD.

This series brings together in accessible form the conclusions of an international team of distinguished scholars regarding various important aspects of Jesus' teaching. The authors have extensively analyzed biblical and contextual evidence about whom Jesus was and what he taught; they summarize their findings here in easily readable and stimulating discussions.

This book illustrates in detail the range of understandings of the human condition in New Testament times and remedies for ills that prevailed when Jesus and the apostles were spreading the Christian message and launching Christian communities in the Graeco-Roman world.

The Cambridge Companion to the Bible, 2nd edition provides in-depth data and analysis of the production and reception of the canonical writings of the Hebrew Bible and New Testament, and also of the apocryphal works produced by Jewish and Christian writers. Unique among single-volume introductions, this book focuses on the ever-changing social and cultural contexts in which the biblical authors and their original readers lived. The authors of the first edition were chosen for their internationally recognized expertise in their respective fields: the history and literature of Israel; postbiblical Judaism; biblical archaeology; and the origins and early literature of Christianity. In this second edition, all chapters have been updated and thoroughly revised,under the direction of a new volume editor, Bruce D. Chilton. More than 22 new maps, 90 new photographs and a full-color section help illustrate the book.

To understand the historical beginnings of Christianity, one requires to examine the documents that the movement produced and other evidence that can illumine the socio-cultural context in which Christianity began and how it responded to the influences. Performing such readings of the texts and communities, this is a study of Christian origins.

This work examines the complex factors that shaped Judaism and early Christianity, analyzing the cardinal Judaic and Christian texts and the cultural worlds in which they were written.