ORDINARY PROFESSOR OF THEOLOGY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG. THE TIME OF JESUS. VOL. I. TRANSLATED, WITH THE AUTHOR'S SANCTION, FROM THE SECOND GERMAN CHARLES T. POYNTING, B.A., & PHILIP QUENZER. 14, HENRIETTA STREET, COVENT GARDEN, LONDON; 1878. THE History of the New Testament Times is now presented to the reader in a revised and enlarged edition. The latter part of the work, especially, has at the same time been much altered under the influence of Dr. Keim's Jesus of Nazara. In the plan of the book nothing has been altered. The aim in view is still to present a history of the development of culture in the times of Jesus and the writers of the New Testament, so far as this development had a direct influence upon the rise of Christianity; and then to give the history of this rise itself, so far as it can be treated as an objective history, and not as a subjective religious process. The author, in the Preface to the first edition, wrote as follows: "What we call the sacred history, is the presentation of only the most prominent points of a far broader historical life. The history of the Old Testament has always been treated in connection with the history of Israel; while, on the other hand, the attempt to give a connected presentation of all the historical circumstances which form the basis of the New Testament history and literature, was not made before the time of Dr. Matthew Schneckenburger, owing to the dissimilar character of the materials. For the New Testament history is not like that of the Old Testament, member of one single national development, but displays itself in various territories, and enters into the most |