CHICAGO (RNS) — 'The New Testament in Its World' captures — in nearly 1,000 pages, a workbook and series of lectures — the 'sweep of my teaching,' said the Anglican bishop and scholar.

Ben Witherington III, author of 60 books on the New Testament and the Gospels, teamed up with Jason A. Myers, associate professor of Biblical Studies at Greensboro College, to create “a field ...