books.google.ch - In this book, Calvin Roetzel explores the social, political, religious, and intellectual environment of the New Testament writers. Roetzel maps the major features of the first-century landscape so that the student may be able to view the whole, and through the whole gain new perspective on and insight...http://books.google.ch/books/about/The_World_that_Shaped_the_New_Testament.html?hl=de&id=mTlUqGjYpeoC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareThe World that Shaped the New Testament