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Preaching's Preacher's Guide to the Best Bible Reference for
2014 (New Testament General)
This
revised edition of the standard reference work in its field has been expanded
throughout to now provide even more up-to-date information by Craig Keener, one
of the leading New Testament scholars on Jewish, Greek and Roman culture. To
understand and apply the Bible well, you need two crucial sources of
information. One is the Bible itself. The other is an understanding of the
cultural background of the passage you're reading. Only with the background can
you grasp the author's original concerns and purposes. This unique commentary
provides, in verse-by-verse format, the crucial cultural background you need
for responsible--and richer--Bible study. It includes a glossary of cultural
terms and important historical figures, maps and charts, up-to-date
bibliographies, and introductory essays about cultural background information
for each book of the New Testament. Based on decades of in-depth study, this
accessible and bestselling commentary is valuable for pastors in sermon
preparation, for Sunday-school and other church teachers as they build lessons,
for missionaries concerned not to import their own cultural biases into the
Bible, for college and seminary students in classroom assignments, and for
everyday Bible readers seeking to deepen and enhance their study of Scripture.
