Historical novels for NT culture

Mark Goodacre M.S.Goodacre at bham.ac.uk
Sun Jul 9 21:18:40 EDT 2000


On 9 Jul 00, at 19:46, Jonathan Robie wrote:

> I would be interested in knowing of interesting historical novels that
> accurately and vividly portray New Testament culture, architecture, and
> politics. Do such novels exist?

Have you tried Gerd Theissen's _The Shadow of the Galilean_ (ET, 
London: SCM, 1987)?  Rare in that it is a piece of fiction written by 
a NT scholar.

Mark
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