This monumental work demonstrates the traditions, history, problems, thoughts, and theology of the Jewish people and other surrounding cultures at the time of Christ. It is filled with details on the background of the New Testament. Alfred Edersheim excellently portrays the streets, the market, the religious disputes, the people, and the sites of Jesus' earthly ministry. He takes the reader chronologically through the gospel from the viewpoint of a man who traveled and saw the locations that Jesus visited.
