Engaging culture. A christian vision for creation care
"A clear and amazingly thorough presentation of the social, political, and religious backgrounds of the first-century Jewish and Greco-Roman milieu in which the New Testament was born"
Much attention has been paid to the words of the earliest Christian canonical and extracanonical texts, yet Larry Hurtado points out that an even more telling story is being overlooked - the story of the physical texts themselves
"Critically acute, historically perceptive, and highly readable, this work provides one of the best concise treatments of the earliest years of the Christian mission .... A good read and an instructive guide for specialist, students, and laity alike"
The author designed the book to be suitable as a text for courses in curriculum and instruction