Autorentext

Bart D. Ehrman is James A. Gray Distinguished Professor of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has written or edited thirty-three books, including six New York Times best sellers. His publications include The Bible, Second Edition (2017), A Brief Introduction to the New Testament, Fifth Edition (2020), and After the New Testament, Second Edition (2014), all published by Oxford University Press. Hugo Méndez is an Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he teaches New Testament and Early Christianity. He is the author of The Cult of Stephen in Jerusalem: Inventing a Patron Martyr (2016), published by Oxford University Press.

Klappentext

"The eighth edition of Bart D. Ehrman's highly successful introduction approaches the New Testament from a consistently historical and comparative perspective, emphasizing the rich diversity of the earliest Christian literature. Distinctive to this study is its unique focus on the historical, literary, and religious milieux of the Greco-Roman world, including early Judaism"--