
Brimming with lavish, full-color photos and graphics, the Zondervan Illustrated Bible Backgrounds Commentary walks you chapter by chapter through all the books of the New Testament. It s like slipping on a set of glasses that lets you read the Bible through the eyes of a first-century...

Discover: -How the springs at Hierapolis help us understand why Jesus described the church at Laodicea as "lukewarm" -The background and circumstances of certificates of divorce in Judaism -How Jewish dietary laws provided a powerful metaphor for God's acceptance of the Gentiles...