Jewish Groups at the Time of the New Testament

When Jesus began to proclaim the gospel, the Sadducees, Essenes, and Pharisees were also laying claim to Israel’s […]

The Roman Empire and the Greco-Roman World at the Time of the New Testament

The first-century Roman world of the NT lay culturally at the intersection of Hellenism (Greek language and culture) […]

Most of the writers of the NT grew up in the world of “Second Temple Judaism,” the time […]

Introduction Mesopotamian texts indicate that long before Israel entered Canaan, other countries had prophets. These texts from Israel’s […]

Poetry is pervasive in the Hebrew Bible—the only books in the OT without any poetry are Leviticus, Ruth, […]

The “Historical Books” of the OT, which come after the Pentateuch, tell the story of (1) Israel’s entry […]

The Name of the Pentateuch The Pentateuch (Gk. “five-volumed”) consists of the first five books of the Bible, […]

The following material summarizes some of the arguments for an early date (1446 b.c.) and a later date (c. […]

When it comes to describing “the theology of the Old Testament,” not everyone is convinced that there is […]