{"id":5527,"date":"2010-02-07T15:33:11","date_gmt":"2010-02-07T15:33:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/jesuscreed\/2010\/02\/peoples-behind-the-new-testame.html"},"modified":"2010-02-07T15:33:11","modified_gmt":"2010-02-07T15:33:11","slug":"peoples-behind-the-new-testame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jesuscreed\/2010\/02\/peoples-behind-the-new-testame.html","title":{"rendered":"Peoples Behind the New Testament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/jesuscreed\/assets_c\/2010\/02\/Qumran-11341.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/jesuscreed\/files\/import\/assets_c\/2010\/02\/Qumran-thumb-250x217-11341.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"217\" alt=\"Qumran.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"float: left;margin: 0 20px 20px 0\" \/><\/a><\/span>No passage in the New Testament ever describes the groups it assumes everyone knows. Yet, we beg for those descriptions and so scholars over the years have sketched and re-sketched, and then discarded and reconstructed what can be known about those groups. The most recent, and thoroughly readable &#8212; and every church library needs this book and I would say pastors need it and students need to know about it to save them a million errors of caricature &#8212; book that sketches these people is by <a href=\"http:\/\/directory.leeuniversity.edu\/MaintainDirectory.aspx?op=Bios&amp;ID=756\">William A. Simmons<\/a>. The book is called <em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1565638778?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=jescre-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=1565638778\">Peoples of the New Testament World: An Illustrated Guide<\/a><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=jescre-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=1565638778\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important;margin:0px !important\" \/><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>So, you ask, what&#8217;s in the book?<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Illustrations aplenty and discussions of Pharisees, Sadducees, Scribes, Zealots, tax collectors, sinners, people of the land, Samaritans, John the Baptist, Hebrews, Hellenists, Charlatans-Exorcists-magicians, Herodians, Roman rulers, centurions, patrons-clients, Greek philosophers, and slaves and free. And a splendid, colorful introduction to the historical context of the New Testament.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The book will be of eminent use to professors and teachers as a textbook or as a book to whom students can be sent for an initial sketch of the various groups.&nbsp;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No passage in the New Testament ever describes the groups it assumes everyone knows. Yet, we beg for those descriptions and so scholars over the years have sketched and re-sketched, and then discarded and reconstructed what can be known about those groups. 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