The New Testament in Cross-Cultural Perspective

by Richard, L. Rohrbaugh and Richard L. Rohrbaugh

Book Overview

The Bible is not a Western book, and the world of the New Testament is not our world. The New Testament world was preindustrial, Mediterranean, and populated mostly by nonliterate peasants who depended on hearing these writings read aloud. Only a few of the literate elite were part of the Jesus movement, and they knew nothing of either modernity or the Western culture we inhabit today. This means that for all North Americans, reading the New Testament...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1597528277
• ISBN13: 9781597528276
• Release Date: October 2006
• Publisher: Cascade Books
• Length: 228 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.3" x 9.0"