This beautifully designed, full-color textbook introduces the Roman background of the New Testament by immersing students in the life and culture of the thriving first-century towns of Pompeii and Herculaneum, which act as showpieces of the World into which the Early Christian movement was spreading.
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The book includes discussion questions, maps, and 175 color photographs.
Bruce Longenecker, a leading scholar of the ancient World of the New Testament, discusses first-century artifacts in relation to the life stories of people from the Roman world.
This beautifully designed, full-color textbook introduces the Roman background of the New Testament by immersing students in the life and culture of the thriving first-century towns of Pompeii and Herculaneum, which act as showpieces of the World into which the Early Christian movement was spreading