Why Study the Second Temple Period?

Why Study the Second Temple Period?

Why would someone interested in the New Testament study the history of the Greco-Roman world? This history is important because the key to understanding the New Testament is context....If we do not try to put ourselves into the context of the original readers of the Scriptures, we can very easily read our own culture into a passage and reach wrong conclusions about what it meant to the author and therefore what it should mean to us.

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