Posts from January 2022 (Page 2)
Lesson 1: The Historical Setting of the New Testament
Click/tap to download the handout Jesus did not spend 33 years living in a vacuum. He lived in the real world of the first century Roman Empire. He entered a world of politics, economics, and religion. Without an understanding of that historical context, our study of the Bible will always leave us scratching our heads. THE SECULAR SETTING Between the time of the Babylonian conquest to the birth of Jesus, the Jewish people had been under the rule of others…
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