The New Testament World

This work is based on the premise that to best understand what people say and mean to say, one must first understand the social context from which they speak. I... » 

This work is based on the premise that to best understand what people say and mean to say, one must first understand the social context from which they speak. In order to understand the New Testament, this means grasping the social system of the Eastern Mediterranean in the first century AD. «