This lively, engaging introduction to the New Testament is critical yet faith-friendly, lavishly illustrated, and accompanied by a variety of pedagogical aids, including sidebars, maps, tables, charts, diagrams, and suggestions for further reading. The full-color interior features art from around the world that illustrates the New Testament's impact on history and culture. The first edition has been well received (over 60,000 copies sold). This new edition has been thoroughly revised in response to professor feedback and features an updated interior design. It offers expanded coverage of the New Testament world in a new chapter on Jewish backgrounds, features dozens of new works of fine art from around the world, and provides extensive new online material for students and professors available through Baker Academic's Textbook eSources.
... 75, 76–79, 83, 84–85, 134, 142–43 justification, 76–79, 86, 101–2, 138–39 Keener, Craig S., 13, 52, 162 Köstenberger, Andreas J., 52, 127 Kruse, Colin G., 152 law, 26,95, 101, 112 Liefeld, Walter L., 43, 106 Longenecker, Richard N., ...
Explores the literature of the New Testament of the Bible, highlighting the many messages contained within the text and outlining issues that can be discussed by heralding these messages.
Helps students understand the New Testament by introducing its contents and principles for its interpretation.
Many introductions to the New Testament are either too simple, not providing all the necessary information, or overly complicated and written at a level out of the reach of an average person with no seminary training. This work is neither.
109- 239; David E. Aune, The New Testament in Its Literary Environment (Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1987), pp. 27-36 and the bibliography on pp. 43-44. 4R. A. Burridge, “About People, by People, for People: Gospel Genre and ...
This second edition has been updated to take fuller account of different theories regarding the Gospels, with new chapters on the historical Jesus and on gospel literature not included in our New Testament, and with a pleasing new format.
Some scholars contend that oracles against foreign nations were delivered at sanctuaries, and for this reason some have suggested that Obadiah was himself a cultic prophet attached to the temple staff in Jerusalem, and furthermore, ...
Introducing the New Testament
Charles B Puskas, C Michael Robbins. ———. The Rabbinic Traditions about the Pharisees ... Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 1991. ... 2nd ed. Minneapolis: Fortress, 2005. Nickle, Keith Fullerton. The Collection: A Study in Paul's Strategy.
Fr. Collins (Catholic U. of Louvain) has a masterful grasp of his subject; and this book is a model of clarity, organization, and fair-mindedness.