ABSTRACT

This book is an attempt to bring together from many sources some of the more prominent features of the social, religious, and literary background of the New Testament – an endeavour to capture so far as is possible the atmosphere of thought and feeling in which our Lord and His contemporaries lived.

part 1|170 pages

Religious Thought in Palestine in the Time of Christ

chapter 1|4 pages

Introductory

chapter 2|4 pages

Social and Educational Conditions

chapter 3|64 pages

Palestinian Literature

chapter 4|7 pages

Messiah

chapter 5|3 pages

The Scribes

chapter 6|4 pages

The pharisees

chapter 7|5 pages

The Sadducees

chapter 8|3 pages

The Essenes

chapter 9|3 pages

The Samaritans

chapter 10|4 pages

The Septuagint

chapter 11|3 pages

Galilee

chapter 12|11 pages

Canon and Apocrypha

chapter 14|21 pages

Our Lord’s Use of the Old Testament

chapter 15|6 pages

The Story of Akhikar