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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