books.google.com - The pathway to understanding the New Testament leads through the vibrant landscape of the first-century Greco-Roman world. The New Testament is rooted in the concrete historical events of that world.In Jesus & the Rise of Early Christianity Paul Barnett not only places the New Testament within that world...http://books.google.com/books/about/Jesus_the_Rise_of_Early_Christianity.html?id=NlFYY_iVt9cC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareJesus & the Rise of Early Christianity
