Download or read book The New Testament Background written by Charles Kingsley Barrett and published by Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. This book was released on 1987 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title takes into account Qumran material and Gnostic literature, including the Nag Hammadi texts, chapters on Josephus, the Targums and Apocalyptic as well as material from the Greek tragedians, in order to provide a background to the New Testament.