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Chronological and Background Charts of the New Testament: Second Edition (ZondervanCharts)

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This book of charts is part of a series covering the Old Testament, the New Testament, Church History, Christian Doctrine, Philosophy, etc.

Of the several that I have, I would rate this as one of the better titles. Dr. House, while obviously an evangelical, bordering on being a fundamentalist, is sound and even-handed when dealing with various differences in timetables, chronologies, opinions, etc. about New Testament history and doctrine.

There is a little big of Protestant "digging" against Catholic understandings of New Testament doctrines etc., but nothing too objectionable.

This would be a good book for the "informed layman" or for a church library. In fact, it's a good introduction to the New Testament for adult Christian education.

But it is not without its flaws, and that needs to be realized in advance by clergy of differing backgrounds.

This is my first review for Zondervan. I must say that they hit a home run with this book. I received it today in the post. I do not normally review a book this quickly, but was curious about this book.

I sat down for about an hour poring over the book. The introduction stated that there is an abundance of information available about the New Testament. I must say that they packed much of it into this one.

I was amazed at all of the charts that were in the book.

I shall list some of them here:

Political and Religious Leaders

First Century Emporors, Prefects, Rulers in Judea, and in Israel

Roman Emporors in NT Times

The Ptolemies

The Seleucids

The Maccabees

The High Priests

and more

General Material

The Books of the NT (arranged according to the time of writing as well as charts on the doctrinal and literary classification of various books).

Weights and Measures

NT quotations of OT passages

The Gospels

Literary relationship of the Synoptics

A comparative chart of the four gospels

The five gospels of the Jesus Seminar

The Apostolic Age

Information about Acts

Paul's Journeys

Chronological charts of the Apostolic age

The Pauline epistles

Hebrews

Revelation

Various perspectives on Revelation

The list of charts goes on and on, it seems.

The charts deal with everything from the secular history of the times to the history of the NT books.

I can see how this work would be very useful to any careful student of the NT. It is a good resource. It is also easy to read. The font is easy on the eyes, and the layout is not overly cluttered.

I highly recommend it.

Okey, I have to repeat what I said about the Old Testament version and this one. These are great study tools! I purchased these back in college. Loved them then and even now! Definitely a must for any library. Excellent format, charts, clear explainations, etc. If you don't get it for yourself, get it for your kids. They definitely need visual aids to get anything anyways! The others in this series are great too.

I have looked for many of these charts, but never could find them all in one place. Also, he created many new ones that are very useful for me, and for the class I teach.

THERE'S NO CD! I'm debating whether to keep it or return it.
I've seen, and have, other chart books by Zondervan which have the CD with all the charts in it on PowerPoint. It makes things so much easier when teaching a class. Second, this book is primarily tables of information which would probably be better in paragraph form anyway. There are several charts and tables which are useful but the value for classroom usage is excessively limited. Finally, there are no maps. When discussing the background of the New Testament one of the critical factors is understanding where everything is located. I expected more from Zondervan, particularly since this is the new edition that was just released.

This book has some good information in it that helps put the Bible in an order that makes it easier to understand.

Book was received within the specified time and its condition was as advertised.

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I have ordered about 10-12 recently for a Bible class we are having. They all have arrived promptly and in great condition. Thank you Amazon!