Beschrijving
An investigation into economic and social conditions during the New Testament period
Including: Economic conditions in the city of Jerusalem, economic status, social status, and the maintenance of racial purity.
The late Joachim Jeremias was a German Lutheran theologian, scholar of Near Eastern Studies and university professor for New Testament studies and was abbot of Bursfelde between 1968 and 1971. His formative years were spent in Jerusalem. His work, “Jerusalem In The Time Of Jesus” is a masterpiece of research and historical detective work, the author having pieced together in extraordinary detail what life must have been like in first century Jerusalem, drawing not only on New Testament texts but the Hebrew Bible and Rabbinic texts as well as those of Romano-Jewish first century historian, Titus Flavius Josephus and other contemporaneous writings.
Despite the author’s background, this book is not religious, but historical. It is scholarly, not an easy read but it gives an amazing and no doubt accurate picture of what life must have been like for everyday residents of and visitors to Jerusalem in the first century. It is over 400 pages long, crammed with notes and bibliography as you would expect from an academic work and this is reflected in the cost.
For further NOTES See also the BACK of the book!
| Author: | Joachim Jeremias |
| ISBNr: | 0800611365 9780800611361 |
