Although the book is compact and therefore necessarily selective in what it takes up, Myers has provided nonspecialist readers a helpful and informative roadmap for engaging the Gospels and Acts.
Alicia D. Myers is Associate Professor of New Testament and Greek at Campbell University And Research Fellow at the University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa. Her work focuses on how Greco-Roman contexts aid our understanding of the NT. Previous publications include Blessed Among Women?: Mothers and Motherhood in the New Testament (Oxford, 2017) and Reading John and 1, 2, 3 John.