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A Strategic Approach to Reading Background Texts of the New Testament

June 27, 2017 by shawnwilhite 16 Comments

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While many NT scholars may know a whole lot about Matthew–Revelation, many lack the ability to pick up and read Josephus and Clement in the original Greek, or Seneca and Cicero in Latin. This reveals not just a severe lack of language ability, but, more importantly, a lack of familiarity with the ideas and historical contexts of Early Jewish, Greco-Roman, and Early Christian authors and texts.

My belief (and I’m not alone in this) is that, as a NT and Early Christian scholar, I must do more than be mindful of the vast body of literature outside the NT; I actually have to read it. [Read more…]

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Filed Under: Greek, Miscellaneous, New Testament Tagged With: Apocrypha, backgrounds, Bible, classics, original languages, phd advice, pseudepigrapha, reading plan, seminary, stoics, theology

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