Reading the Bible as Greco-Roman Literature

The authors of the New Testament were playing with genres, philosophies and themes that were well-known in Greco-Roman literature. Guest Robyn Faith Walsh teaches us how to read the Bible for what it was in the 1st and 2nd centuries — part and parcel of a wider literary world.

Robyn's eye-opening new book is The Origins of Early Christian Literature (amazon.com/Origins-Early-Christian-Literature/…) and we can't recommend it highly enough.

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