Charting the New Testament

by John W. Welch, John F. Hall

This book offers a world of information about the New Testament and its background. It contains more than 200 charts, tables, and graphs, each with in-depth explanation and introductory material in a reader-friendly format.

Covering a wide array of topics from the ancient Jewish setting of the New Testament and the world of the Greeks and Romans in which the activities of Jesus and his apostles took place to detailed analyses of the scriptural text itself the book offers an extensive overview of matters doctrinal, literary, and historical. A companion volume to Charting the Book of Mormon, this handy resource is designed with both the student and the teacher in mind.

Genres: Nonfiction, Religion

425 pages, Paperback

First published June 1, 2002

About the author

John W. Welch is the Robert K. Thomas Professor of Law at the J. Reuben Clark Law School, Brigham Young University, where he teaches various courses, including Perspectives on Jewish, Greek, and Roman Law in the New Testament. Since 1991 he has also served as the editor in chief of BYU Studies. He studied history and classical languages at Brigham Young University, Greek philosophy at Oxford, and law at Duke University. As a founder of the Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, one of the editors for Macmillan’s Encyclopedia of Mormonism, and codirector of the Masada and Dead Sea Scrolls exhibition at BYU, he has published widely on biblical, early Christian, and Latter-day Saint topics.

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Reviews

[Michele R · Rating 5 out of 5]

Mounds and mounds of information . . . takes a while to digest, but I love it!