Description: The New Testament in Its World by N. T. Wright and Michael F. Bird is the definitive seminary-level introduction to the New Testament, presenting the New Testament books as a literary, narrative, and social phenomena located in the world of second temple Judaism and early Christianity covering the third to the mid-second centuries BCE.
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Michael F. Bird (PhD, University of Queensland) is Deputy Principal and Lecturer in Theology at Ridley College, Australia. He is the author of numerous scholarly and popular books on the New Testament and theology, including Evangelical Theology, Seven Things I Wish Christians Knew about the Bible, and with N. T. Wright, ?The New Testament in Its World.