Brill Academic Pub, 2012. — 299 p. — (Supplements to Novum Testamentum 142). Recent research on the text of the Psalms and Gospels in Greek and in certain versions, principally Coptic, Georgian and Armenian, reveals common characteristics when attempting to separate later editions of a text from its earliest forms. The essays in this collection give concrete examples of the...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2010. — 716 p. — (Blackwell Companions to Religion). The Blackwell Companion to the New Testament is a detailed introduction to the New Testament, written by more than 40 scholars from a variety of Christian denominations. Treats the 27 books and letters of the New Testament systematically, beginning with a review of current issues and concluding with an...
Brill, 2011. - 247 p. - (Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism 152) Books and writing, according to Jacques Derrida, are always concerned with questions of life and death. Nowhere is this more true than regarding the heavenly book motif, which plays an important role in early Judeo-Christian literature, and particularly in apocalypses. This book identifies four...
Biblical Archaeology Society, 2008. — 90 p. Galilee is one of the most evocative locales in the New Testament — the area where Jesus was raised, where many of the Apostles came from, and where Jesus first began to preach. We’ve selected a number of articles to widen your knowledge of this important region, focusing on how Jewish the area was in Jesus’ time, on the ports and the...
Oxford University Press, 2011. — 700 p. Although major New Testament figures-Jesus and Paul, Peter and James, Jesus' mother Mary and Mary Magdalene-were Jews, living in a culture steeped in Jewish history, beliefs, and practices, there has never been an edition of the New Testament that addresses its Jewish background and the culture from which it grew-until now. In The Jewish...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2014. — 396 p. — (Supplements to Novum Testamentum 156). Between 1973 and 1983 three volumes of collected essays by Willem C. van Unnik appeared under the title Sparsa Collecta. All the essays in these volumes had been published between 1930 and 1970. The editors of the present volume decided to publish a fourth volume with a selection of his later...
Brill Academic Pub, 2006. — 417 p. — (Supplements to Novum Testamentum 124). This volume, in honor of Bernard C. Lategan, a renowned specialist on the modern reception of the New Testament, covers the broad spectrum of the reception of the New Testament as literature. Interpretations of the New Testament from antiquity through modern day critical scholarship up to contemporary...
Zondervan, 2005. — 515 p. An Introduction to the New Testament focuses on "special introduction" that is historical questions dealing with authorship, date, sources, purpose, destination, and so forth. This approach stands in contrast to recent texts that concentrate more on literary form, rhetorical criticism, and historical parallels — topics the authors don’t minimize, but...
Tyndale House Publishers, 2008. — 942 p. The purpose of this work is to provide scholars, pastors, students, and serious Bible readers with a commentary on the variant readings in the New Testament that have significance for Bible interpretation and Bible translation — and to do so in a format that is communicative and informative to English readers as well as those who know Greek.
Crossway, 2007. — 560 p. The New Testament is the story of how all the promises made by God in the Old Testament were kept-and what that means for us today. The nation of Israel had many hopes: hope for a deliverer, hope for restored fellowship with God, and hope for the world to be put right. The New Testament explains how those promises were kept and how, if we are...
HarperOne, 2009. - 304 p. Bible expert Bart Ehrman skillfully demonstrates that the New Testament is riddled with contradictory views about who Jesus was and the significance of his life. Ehrman reveals that many of the books were written in the names of the apostles by Christians living decades later, and that central Christian doctrines were the inventions of still later...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2015. — 408 p. — (Supplements to Novum Testamentum 160 ) This bibliography is a comprehensive listing of books, facsimiles, collations and articles relating to some 3,500 Greek New Testament manuscripts, including references to photographic plates and albums. These are divided into the conventional categories of papyri, majuscules, minuscules and...
Brill Academic Pub, 2010. — 678 p. — (Supplements to Novum Testamentum 137). J.K. Elliott has been identified as one of the Main exponents of so-called thoroughgoing textual criticism. In this collection of fifty seven of his essays from the past forty years are articles on methodology as well as on praxis (with a selection of important textual variants, including some of...
Oxford University Press, 2008. - 232 p. This accessible selection of the most important and significant of the remarkable and often bizarre apocryphal stories surrounding the life of Jesus and the Early Church has established a reputation as an invaluable introduction to the genre of Christian apocryphal literature. J. K. Elliott clearly explains the scholarly importance of the...
Brill Academic Pub, 2005. — 896 p. — (Supplements to Novum Testamentum 116). This collection of frequently cited articles and chapters published from 1962 to 2004 provides perspective on the history and development of New Testament textual criticism, with descriptions and critique of the major text-critical theories and methods. Specific manuscripts and text-types, such as the...
Hendrickson Publishers, 2005. — 575 p. One of the daunting challenges facing the New Testament interpreter is achieving familiarity with the immense corpus of related literatures. Scholars and students alike must have a fundamental understanding of the content, provenance, and utility for New Testament interpretation of a wide range of pagan, Jewish, and diversely Christian...
Brill Academic Pub, 2004. — 449 p. — (Supplements to Novum Testamentum 111). The fifteen essays in this volume, rooted in the work of the Hellenistic Moral Philosophy and Early Christianity Section of the SBL, examine the works of Philodemus and how they illuminate the cultural context of early Christianity. Born in Gadara in Syria, Philodemus (ca. 110-40 BCE) was active in...
Fortress Press, 2015. — 191 p. Christians around the world recite the "Lord's Prayer" daily, but what exactly are they praying forand what relationship does it have with Jesus' own context? Jeffrey B. Gibson reviews scholarship that derives the so-called Lord's Prayer from Jewish synagogal prayers and refutes it. The genre of the prayer, he shows, is petitionary, and...
Baker Academic, 2013. — 640 p. This volume addresses the most important issues related to the study of New Testament writings. Two respected senior scholars have brought together a team of distinguished specialists to introduce the Jewish, Hellenistic, and Roman backgrounds necessary for understanding the New Testament and the early church. Contributors include renowned...
Nashville, Abingdon Press, 2005. ISBN 0-687-08569-1 English language. 940 c. One of the classic academic Introductions to the New Testament, helping to correctly interpret the message and meaning of the Person of Jesus Christ, to understand the history of the creation of the texts of the New Testament and the formation of the New Testament canon. Theology & Scripture. The New...
Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2011. — 3652 p. — ISBN: 978-90-04-16372-0. A hundred years after A. Schweitzer's "Von Reimarus zu Wrede," the study of the historical Jesus is again experiencing a renaissance. Ongoing since the beginning of the 1980's, this renaissance has produced an abundance of Jesus studies that also display a welcome diversity of methods, approaches and hypotheses....
Cambridge University Press, 2009. - 240 p. Abbreviations page ix G. M. Styler and the Cambridge New Testament Seminar Did Jesus teach that his death would be vicarious as well as typical? Imitatio Christi and the Lucan Passion narrative The persecution of Christians in John 15: 18-16: 40 Interchange and suffering On the interpretation of Colossians 1: 24 Preparation for the...
Piscataway, NJ, USA: Gorgias Press, 2016. — xxii + 350 p. — (Texts and Studies 13). — ISBN: 978-1-4632-0576-8, ISSN: 1935-6927. In 2011, the European Research Council awarded Dr Hugh Houghton a Starting Grant to lead a five-year project investigating the earliest commentaries on Paul as sources for the biblical text. This project, known by its acronym COMPAUL, was intended to...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2000. — 298 p. — (Supplements to Novum Testamentum 100). This study examines the association of "implanted logos" and the "perfect law of freedom" in the Letter of James. It argues that James understands the Torah to be a written expression of the divine law the stoics correlated with human reason.
Brill Academic Publishers, 2013. — 351 p. — (Supplements to Novum Testamentum 153). This study presents a coherent interpretation of the Malta episode by arguing that Acts 28:1-10 narrates a theoxeny, that is, an account of unknowing hospitality to a god which results in the establishment of a fictive kinship relationship between the Maltese barbarians and Paul and his God. In...
Brill Academic Pub, 2009. — 377 p. — (Supplements to Novum Testamentum 133). Although scholarship has noted the thematic importance of peace in Ephesians, few have examined its political character in a sustained manner throughout the entire letter. This book addresses this lacuna, comparing Ephesians with Colossians, Greek political texts, Dio Chrysostom's Orations, and the...
London: Bloomsbury, 2014. — 160 p. — ISBN: 0567657035, 0567657027. Daniel Lynwood Smith orients readers of the New Testament to its historical and cultural settings, introducing the cast of characters, and illuminating key concepts by exploring their use in ancient texts. Smith includes quotations from many primary sources including Josephus, Tacitus, the Qumran Community,...
InterVarsity Press, 1977. — 132 p. Professor Marshall describes the origins of New Testament Christology a subject 'vast in scope, unencompassable in its bibliography and daunting in its problems'. Undaunted, he skilfully outlines the various approaches to its origins, considers some of the main issues, and offer some critical comments upon them. The book is thus an admirable...
InterVarsity Press, 1977. — 132 p. Professor Marshall describes the origins of New Testament Christology a subject 'vast in scope, unencompassable in its bibliography and daunting in its problems'. Undaunted, he skilfully outlines the various approaches to its origins, considers some of the main issues, and offer some critical comments upon them. The book is thus an admirable...
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1926. — 396 p. John the Baptist. The baptism of Jesus. The temptation in the wilderness. The wonderful news. The man in the synagogue. The healing of the leper. The healing of the palsied man. The preaching of the kingdom. The challenge to the law. The parting of the ways. The boat and the mountain. The call of the twelve. The mysteries of the...
Xulon Press, 2006. — 316 p. — ISBN10: 1600341071 ; ISBN13: 9781600341076. This is a controversial book, because the 1st Century's Galilean dialect of Aramaic is missing. The author uses his own judgment to bring the reader closer to the language of Jesus Christ. This book is an introduction to Aramaic biblical studies and to the last Christians who still speak the ancient...
Walter de Gruyter, 2016. — 388 p. — (Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die neutestamentliche Wissenschaft 182) Luke the Historian and Theologian looks globally over "written texts" that are being read as authoritative scripture and pronounces them as pointing together. He argues that both Hellenistic rhetorical historiography and Israel's scriptural heritage distinguish the ever...
Brill, 1966. — 256 p. The Background of the N.T. expectation Consistent Eschatology Realised Eschatology Continental Demythologizing Salvation-history and the Parousia in the N.T The N.T. insistence on the imminence of the Parousia Did the early church delimit its expectation of the Parousia The early church's near expectation of the Parousia Did Jesus delimit his expectation...
William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1979. — 152 p. — (Tyndale New Testament Commentaries) Morris's revised study on the Epistles to the Thessalonian s is part of The New International Commentary on the New Testament. Prepared by some of the world's leading scholars, the series provides an exposition of the New Testament books that is thorough and fully abreast of modern...
William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1979. — 152 p. — (Tyndale New Testament Commentaries) Morris's revised study on the Epistles to the Thessalonian s is part of The New International Commentary on the New Testament. Prepared by some of the world's leading scholars, the series provides an exposition of the New Testament books that is thorough and fully abreast of modern...
Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2005. — 268 p. — ISBN10: 0521020697; ISBN13: 978-0521020695 Alexandru Neagoe examines Luke's writings as an apologetic work, by focusing on the parts of Luke's story where the apologetic overtones seem most prominent--the trial narratives. In analyzing the trials of all major Lukan characters--Jesus, Peter, Stephen, and Paul, Neagoe...
London; New York, 2010. — 305 p. The New Testament is a book of great significance in Western culture yet is often inaccessible to students because the modern world differs so significantly from the ancient Mediterranean one in which it was written. It is imperative to develop a cross-cultural understanding of the values of the ancient Mediterranean society from which the New...
New, York, "Cambridge University Press", 2008, -400 p. This is the first major English-language introduction to the earliest manuscripts of the New Testament to appear for over forty years. An essential handbook for scholars and students, it provides a thorough grounding in the study and editing of the New Testament text combined with an emphasis on dramatic current...
Brill Academic Pub, 2005. — 189 p. — (Supplements to Novum Testamentum 117). In contrast to the common opinion that the Johannine Farewell Discourses represent solely the Jewish genre of the Testament, George Parsenios argues that features of the discourses are misread or missed completely apart from Greco-Roman literature. Evidence from classical drama, for instance, assists...
Zondervan, 2013. — 352 p. A Través de la Biblia le brinda una panorámica que enriquecerá todo su ser. Una vez que empiece a recorrer las páginas de este libro, no podrá dejar de leer lo que Dios inspiró a sus siervos. Myer Pearlman recorre en esta obra cada uno de los libros que componen el canon bíblico. El estudiante de la Biblia obtendrá una información general y precisa en...
St Vladimirs Seminary Pr, 2000. - 167 p. Of the many themes that classical Antiquity and early Christianity had in common, for all their profound diffrerences, none was more influential than their love of language. It was the Greek asnd Roman rhetorical theorists who called the attention of later generations to the importance of speech and language. Likewise, when the author of...
Gorgia Press, 2009 - 237 p. This book is the result of several years' experimentation in interpreting the New Testament, and the approach presented in these pages has been developed in the laboratory of experience. A glance at the Introduction will explain my method and my purpose.
Denver: Fowler-Metzger-Aley and Co., 1933. — 410 p. The purpose of Mr. Reynolds in writing this book has been to provide, in effect, a biography of Jesus that would be a record as nearly complete as possible of His life and teachings compiled of what can be learned of Him from the first four books of the New Testament, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.
Brill, 2008. — 1086 p. — (New Testament Tools, Studies, and Documents) In textual criticism, the 'scribal habits' in a manuscript (tendencies to make various sorts of changes) must be known in order to evaluate its testimony. Colwell analyzed the scribal habits in P45, P66, and P75, by examining their singular readings. This book expands on Colwell's work by studying P45, P46,...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2007. - 273 p. - (Jewish and Christian Perspectives 13) This volume consists of eight chapters dealing with a selected topic in New Testament biblical interpretation, its inherited elements and its relevance for better understanding of wider Jewish exegetical trends.
Fortress Press, 1985. — 459 p. This work takes up two related questions with regard to Jesus: his intention and his relationship to his contemporaries in Judaism. These questions immediately lead to two others: the reason for his death (did his intention involve an opposition to Judaism which led to death?) and the motivating force behind the rise of Christianity (did the split...
Allen Lane; Penguin, 1993. — 352 p. Most scholars who write about the ancient world feel obliged to warn their readers that our knowledge can be at best partial and that certainty is seldom attained. A book about a first-century Jew who lived in a rather unimportant part of the Roman empire must be prefaced by such a warning. We know about Jesus from books written a few decades...
Augsburg Fortress Publishers, 2015. — 270 p. Illnesses are perceived and understood differently across cultures and over time. Traditional interpretations of New Testament texts frame the affliction lepra ("leprosy") as addressed either by ritual cleansing or miraculous healing. But as Pamela Shellberg shows, these interpretations are limited because they shift modern ideas of...
Brill, 2013. — 368 p. — (New Testament Tools, Studies and Documents). — ISBN: 978-90-04-24421-4. In "Critical History of the Text of the New Testament" (1689), 17th century Oratorian Richard Simon (1638-1712), father of modern biblical criticism, surveys the genuineness, authority, and reliability of all then known manuscript and printed sources of the New Testament.
Eermans, 1979. — 185 p. Basic Introduction to the New Testament is an attempt to introduce the New Testament, its authors and their writings, to the man in the pew. The practice of daily Bible reading, whether by individual Christians or in family prayers, is becoming rare. The purpose of this book is to encourage Christian people to read the New Testament for themselves. It is...
Eermans, 1979. — 185 p. Basic Introduction to the New Testament is an attempt to introduce the New Testament, its authors and their writings, to the man in the pew. The practice of daily Bible reading, whether by individual Christians or in family prayers, is becoming rare. The purpose of this book is to encourage Christian people to read the New Testament for themselves. It is...
Zondervan, 2005. — 798 p. Studying the theology of the New Testament can be a daunting task, even to the knowledgeable Bible student or pastor. Each of the twenty-seven books, written by various authors, has its own theological emphasis and nuances. How do we elicit a coherent message from such theological diversity, especially given that some of the theological statements in...
Zondervan, 2005. — 798 p. Studying the theology of the New Testament can be a daunting task, even to the knowledgeable Bible student or pastor. Each of the twenty-seven books, written by various authors, has its own theological emphasis and nuances. How do we elicit a coherent message from such theological diversity, especially given that some of the theological statements in...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2011. — 334 p. — (Blackwell Bible Commentaries) This unique commentary on Paul’s early letters by an outstanding New Testament specialist, provides a broad range of original perspectives of how people have interpreted, and been influenced by, Paul’s first two letters.Addresses questions concerning the content, setting, and authenticity of the two Thessalonian...
Cambridge University Press, 2009. — 256 p. For nearly nineteen hundred years, few have questioned the single authorship of Luke and Acts. A careful reassessment of the internal and external evidence, however, reveals this assumption to be built on a shakier foundation than was previously thought. Patricia Walters's innovative study offers a newly designed statistical analysis...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2011. — 349 p. — (Supplements to Novum Testamentum 139) Scholars of Christian origins often regard Luke-Acts and the writings of Justin Martyr as similar accounts of the replacement of Israel by the non-Jewish church. According to this view, both authors commandeer the Jewish scriptures as the sole possession of non-Jewish Christ-believers, rather...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2012. — 513 p. — (Supplements to Novum Testamentum 145). In 'Persecution in 1 Peter', Travis B. Williams offers a comprehensive and detailed socio-historical investigation into the nature of suffering in 1 Peter. While interpreters commonly portray the conflict situation addressed by the epistle as "unofficial" persecution consisting of discrimination...
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