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Bibliography: New Testament Background—The Jewish World

Overview

Bell, Albert A. Exploring the New Testament World: An Illustrated Guide to the World of Jesus and the First Christians. Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 1998.

Bruce, F. F. New Testament History. London: Nelson, 1969.

Cohen, Shaye. From the Maccabees to the Mishnah. LEC. Philadelphia: Westminster, 1987.

Esler, Philip F. The First Christians in Their Social World. London: Routledge, 1994.

Ferguson, Everett. Backgrounds of Early Christianity. 2nd ed. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1993.

Jagersma, Henk. A History of Israel from Alexander the Great to Bar Kochba. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1986.

Koester, Helmut. Introduction to the New Testament. Vol. 1, History, Culture, and Religion of the Hellenistic Age. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1982.

Lohse, Eduard. The New Testament Environment. Nashville: Abingdon, 1976.

Luker, Lamontte, ed. Passion, Vitality, and Foment: The Dynamics of Second Temple Judaism. Harrisburg, PA: Trinity Press International, 2001.

Malina, Bruce. Windows on the World of Jesus: Time Travel to Ancient Judea. Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 1993.

Murphy, Frederick, Jr. The Religious World of Jesus: An Introduction to Second Temple Palestinian Judaism. Nashville: Abingdon, 1991.

Reicke, Bo. The New Testament Era: The World of the Bible from 500 BC to AD 100. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1968.

Roetzel, Calvin J., and David L. Tiede. The World That Shaped the New Testament. Rev. ed. Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2002.

Schürer, Emil. A History of the Jewish People in the Age of Jesus Christ (175 BC–AD 135). Rev. ed. 3 vols. Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 1973–87.

Stambaugh, John, and David Balch. The New Testament in Its Social Environment. LEC. Philadelphia: Westminster, 1986.

Stegemann, Ekkehard W., and Wolfgang Stegemann. The Jesus Movement: A Social History of Its First Century. Minneapolis: Fortress, 1995.

The Jewish World

Palestine

Hanson, K. C., and Douglas E. Oakman. Palestine in the Time of Jesus: Social Structures and Social Conflicts. Minneapolis: Fortress, 1998.

Horbury, William. Herodian Judaism and New Testament Study. WUNT 193. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2006.

Galilee

Chancey, Mark. Greco-Roman Culture and the Galilee of Jesus. SNTSMS 134. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006.

Freyne, Sean. Jesus the Galilean: A New Reading of the Jesus Story. Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 2005.

The Jewish Parties

Saldarini, Anthony J. Pharisees, Scribes, and Sadducees in Palestinian Society: A Sociological Approach. Wilmington, DE: Michael Glazier, 1988.

Stemberger, Günter. Jewish Contemporaries of Jesus: Pharisees, Sadducees, Essenes. Minneapolis: Fortress, 1995.

Pharisees

Finkelstein, Louis. The Pharisees: The Sociological Background of Their Faith. 3rd ed. 2 vols. Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society of America, 1966.

Neusner, Jacob. From Politics to Piety: The Emergence of Pharisaic Judaism. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1973.

Neusner, Jacob, and Bruce D. Chilton, eds. In Quest of the Historical Pharisees. Waco: Baylor University Press, 2007.

Saldarini, Anthony J. Pharisees, Scribes, and Sadducees in Palestinian Society: A Sociological Approach. Wilmington, DE: Michael Glazier, 1988.

Synagogues

Catto, Stephen K. Reconstructing the First-Century Synagogue: A Critical Analysis of Current Research. LNTS 363. London: T&T Clark, 2007.

Fine, Steven, ed. Sacred Realm: The Emergence of the Synagogue in the Ancient World. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996.

———. This Holy Place: On the Sanctity of the Synagogue during the Greco-Roman Period. Notre Dame, IN: Notre Dame University Press, 1998.

Harland, Philip. Associations, Synagogues, and Congregations: Claiming a Place in Ancient Mediterranean Society. Minneapolis: Fortress, 2003.

Kee, Howard Clark, and Lynn H. Cohick. Evolution of the Synagogue. Harrisburg, PA: Trinity Press International, 1999.

Essenes

Martínez, F. García, and J. Trebolle Barrera. The People of the Dead Sea Scrolls: Their Writings, Beliefs, and Practices. Translated by Wilfred G. E. Watson. Leiden: Brill, 1995.

Dead Sea Scrolls

Collins, John C., and Craig A. Evans, eds. Christian Beginnings and the Dead Sea Scrolls. ASBT. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2006.

Cross, Frank M. The Ancient Library of Qumran and Modern Biblical Studies. Rev. ed. Minneapolis: Augsburg Fortress, 1995.

Fitzmyer, Joseph A. Responses to 101 Questions on the Dead Sea Scrolls. New York: Paulist Press, 1992.

Freedman, David Noel, and Pam Fox Kuhlken. What Are the Dead Sea Scrolls and Why Do They Matter? Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2007.

Schuller, Eileen M. The Dead Sea Scrolls: What Have We Learned? Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2006.

VanderKam, James, and Peter Flint. The Meaning of the Dead Sea Scrolls: Their Significance for Understanding the Bible, Judaism, Jesus, and Christianity. New York: HarperCollins, 2004.

Vermes, Geza. The Complete Dead Sea Scrolls in English. Rev. ed. New York: Penguin, 2004.

———. Scrolls, Scriptures and Early Christianity. London: T&T Clark, 2005.

The Zealots

Hengel, Martin. The Zealots. Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 1989.

Horsley, Richard A., with John S. Hanson. Bandits, Prophets, and Messiahs: Popular Movements in the Time of Jesus. San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1985.

Samaritans

Anderson, Robert T., and Terry Giles. The Keepers: An Introduction to the History and Culture of the Samaritans. Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 2002.

Chang, Choon Shik. The Samaritan Origin and Identity. Taejon, Korea: PaiChai University Publishers, 2004.

Coggins, R. J. Samaritans and Jews: The Origins of the Samaritans Reconsidered. Oxford: Blackwell, 1975.

Jews and Gentiles

Feldman, Louis H. Jew and Gentile in the Ancient World: Attitudes and Interactions from Alexander to Justinian. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993.

Gager, John G. The Origins of Anti-Semitism: Attitudes toward Judaism in Pagan and Christian Antiquity. New York: Oxford University Press, 1985.

Sevenster, Jan Nicolaas. The Roots of Pagan Anti-Semitism in the Ancient World. NovTSup 41. Leiden: Brill, 1975.

Hellenistic Judaism

Bowerstock, G. W. Hellenism in Late Antiquity. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1990.

Hengel, Martin. Judaism and Hellenism: Studies in Their Encounter in Palestine during the Early Hellenistic Period. 2 vols. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1974.

———. Jews, Greeks, and Barbarians: Aspects of the Hellenization of Judaism in the Pre-Christian Period. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1980.

Diaspora

Barclay, John M. G. Jews in the Mediterranean Diaspora: From Alexander to Trajan (323 BCE–117 CE). Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 1996.

Targums

Beattie, Derek R. G., and Martin J. McNamara, eds. The Aramaic Bible: Targums in Their Historical Context. JSOTSup 166. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1994.

Septuagint

Hengel, Martin. The Septuagint as Christian Scripture: Its Prehistory and the Problem of Its Canon. Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 2002.

Jobes, Karen, and Moisés Silva. Introduction to the Septuagint. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2000.

Sundberg, Albert C., Jr. The Old Testament of the Early Church. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1964.

Apocrypha

deSilva, David A. Introducing the Apocrypha: Message, Context, and Significance. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2002.

Harrington, Daniel J. An Invitation to the Apocrypha. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1999.

Kaiser, Otto. The Old Testament Apocrypha: An Introduction. Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 2004.

Metzger, Bruce. An Introduction to the Apocrypha. New York: Oxford University Press, 1957.

Wisdom Theology

Collins, John J. Jewish Wisdom in the Hellenistic Age. OTL. Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 1997.

Apocalypticism

Aune, David E., ed. Apocalypticism, Prophecy, and Magic in Early Christianity: Collected Essays. WUNT 199. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2006.

Carey, Greg. Ultimate Things: Introduction to Jewish and Christian Apocalyptic Literature. St. Louis: Chalice, 2005.

Carey, Greg, and L. Gregory Bloomquist, eds. Vision and Persuasion: Rhetorical Dimensions of Apocalyptic Discourse. St. Louis: Chalice, 2005.

Collins, John J. The Apocalyptic Imagination: An Introduction to the Jewish Matrix of Christianity. 2nd ed. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1998.

Cook, Stephen L. The Apocalyptic Literature. IBT. Nashville: Abingdon, 2003.

Lewis, Scott. What Are They Saying about New Testament Apocalyptic? Mahwah, NJ: Paulist Press, 2003.

McGinn, Bernard, John J. Collins, and Stephen J. Stein, eds. The Encyclopedia of Apocalypticism. 3 vols. New York: Continuum, 1999.

———, eds. The History of Apocalypticism. New York: Continuum, 2003.

Nicholas, William C., Jr. I Saw the World End: An Introduction to the Bible’s Apocalyptic Literature. Mahwah, NJ: Paulist Press, 2007.

Rowland, Christopher. The Open Heaven: A Study of Apocalyptic in Judaism and Early Christianity. London: SPCK, 1982.

Russell, D. S. The Method and Message of Jewish Apocalyptic. Philadelphia: Westminster, 1964.

Weber, Eugen. Apocalypses: Prophesies, Cults, and Millennial Beliefs through the Ages. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1999.

Early Christian World

Gnosticism

King, Karen L. What Is Gnosticism? Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2003.

Makschies, Christoph. Gnosis: An Introduction. London: T&T Clark, 2003.

Pearson, Birger A. Ancient Gnosticism: Traditions and Literature. Minneapolis: Fortress, 2007.

Perkins, Pheme. Gnosticism and the New Testament. Minneapolis: Augsburg Fortress, 1993.

Roukema, Reimer. Gnosis and Faith in Early Christianity: An Introduction to Gnosticism. Harrisburg, PA: Trinity Press International, 1999.

Gnostic Literature (Nag Hammadi)

Evans, Craig A., Robert L. Webb, and Richard A. Wiebe, eds. Nag Hammadi Texts and the Bible: A Synopsis and Index. NTTS 18. Leiden: Brill, 1993.

Meyer, Marvin, ed. The Nag Hammadi Scriptures: The Definitive International Version. San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 2006.

Robinson, James M. The Nag Hammadi Library. 3rd ed. San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1988.

Social Systems and Cultural Values

deSilva, David. Honor, Patronage, Kinship, and Purity: Unlocking New Testament Culture. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2000.

Malina, Bruce J. The New Testament World: Insights from Cultural Anthropology. 3rd ed. Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2001.

Wealth and Poverty

Holman, Susan R., ed. Wealth and Poverty in Early Christianity. HCSPTH. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2008.

Purity

Douglas, Mary. Purity and Danger. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1966.

Wenell, Karen J. Jesus and Land: Sacred and Social Space in Second Temple Judaism. LNTS 334. London: T&T Clark, 2007.

Patronage

Saller, Richard P. Personal Patronage under the Early Empire. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982.

Wallace-Hadrill, Andrew. Patronage in Ancient Society. London: Routledge, 1989.

Honor and Shame

Campbell, Barth L. Honor, Shame and the Rhetoric of 1 Peter. SBLDS 160. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1998.

Neyrey, Jerome H. Honor and Shame in the Gospel of Matthew. Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 1998.

Other Academic Studies

Balla, Peter. The Child-Parent Relationship in the New Testament and Its Environment. Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 2006.

Millard, Alan R. Reading and Writing in the Time of Jesus. BibSem 69. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 2000.

Vamosh, Miriam Feinberg. Daily Life at the Time of Jesus. Nashville: Abingdon, 2003.