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#138 An evening with NT Wright at The Rock Church

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#138 An evening with NT Wright at The Rock Church

October 6, 2022
Ask NT Wright Anything
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Recorded at The Rock Church, San Diego, Tom Wright challenges us to think like first-century Christians, to imagine Jesus and the early church within the history, culture, and religion of Second Temple Judaism and the Greco-Roman world. Recorded in Nov 2019.

 

For 'The New Testament In Its World': https://zondervanacademic.com/pages/new-testament-in-its-world

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