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| Preface | |
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| Historical, Cultural, and Social Contexts of the New Testament | |
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| Palestine in the Pre-Roman Period | |
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| The Roman Period | |
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| Hellenistic Intellectual Life | |
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| Hellenistic Religions | |
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| Israelite Religion | |
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| Some Groups in First-Century Palestine | |
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| The Diaspora | |
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| Study Questions | |
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| Interpreting the New Testament | |
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| Three Bibles | |
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| The New Testament Canon | |
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| Academic Study of the New Testament | |
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| Methods of Analysis and Criticism | |
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| Hermeneutics | |
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| Historical Criticism | |
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| Alternatives to Historical Criticism | |
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| Liberationist Hermeneutics | |
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| Summary and Point of View in This Textbook | |
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| Study Questions | |
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| The Earliest Non-Pauline Groups and Their Beliefs and Practices | |
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| Historical Sequence | |
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| Writings of the Jesus Movement | |
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| Some Written Sources of the Jesus Movement | |
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| Oral Traditions behind Written Sources and Documents | |
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| Social-Historical Factors That Help to Date Source Materials of the Jesus Movement | |
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| A Chronological Summary of Traditions, Sources, and Documents in Relation to External Evidence | |
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| Some Early Groups and Gatherings of the Jesus Movement | |
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| Wisdom, Prophecy, and Apocalyptic in the Jesus Movement | |
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| Parables and Parable Collections | |
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| Anecdotes | |
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| Early Miracle Stories and Miracle Collections | |
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| A Millennial Speech: The "Little Apocalypse" of Mark 13 | |
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| A Pre-Passion Passion Story? | |
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| Jesus' Passion | |
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| New Testament Christological Hymns | |
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| Summary | |
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| Study Questions | |
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| Paul: Apostle to the Gentiles | |
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| Sources and Chronology for the Life of Paul | |
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| Paul's Individual and Social Context | |
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| Paul's Early Activity as an Apostle | |
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| Paul's Missionary Journeys | |
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| The Authority of Paul as Apostle | |
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| Paul's Urban Churches | |
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| Summary | |
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| Study Questions | |
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| The Letter and Paul's Early Letters | |
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| The Pauline Letter: Its Genre and Rhetoric | |
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| Pre-Pauline Traditions in Paul's Letters | |
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| Paul and the Scriptures | |
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| First Thessalonians | |
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| The Corinthian Correspondence | |
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| Philippians | |
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| Philemon | |
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| Summary | |
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| Study Questions | |
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| Galatians and Romans | |
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| Galatians | |
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| Romans | |
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| Epilogue: Paul's Theology and Ethics, a Summary | |
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| Summary | |
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| Another Epilogue | |
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| Study Questions | |
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| Deutero-Pauline Letters and The Letter to the Hebrews | |
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| Second Thessalonians | |
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| Colossians | |
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| Ephesians | |
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| Social-Historical Factors: The Deutero-Pauline Literature as Representative of a Developing Jesus Movement | |
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| The Letter to the Hebrews | |
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| Study Questions | |
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| The Gospel of Mark: A Mysterious Apocalyptic Drama | |
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| The Gospel | |
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| What Is a "Gospel"? | |
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| Early Church Tradition about the Gospel of Mark | |
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| General Historical Criticism: Author, Date, Place | |
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| Social-Historical Context | |
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| The Sources Used by the Markan Writer | |
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| Stylistic, Literary, and Structural Features of Mark | |
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| Exegetical Survey of the Gospel of Mark | |
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| Further Observations | |
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| The Interpretation of the Gospel of Mark | |
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| Study Questions | |
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| The Gospel of Matthew: Obedience to the New Revelation | |
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| Early Tradition about Matthew | |
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| General Historical Criticism: Author, Date, Place | |
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| Matthew and Genre | |
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| Social-Historical Context | |
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| Language, Style, and Literary Features of Matthew | |
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| Sources and Structure of Matthew | |
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| Exegetical Survey of the Gospel of Matthew | |
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| Further Observations | |
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| The Interpretation of the Gospel of Matthew | |
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| Study Questions | |
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| The Gospel of Luke and the Acts of the Apostles: The Idea and Ethics of Salvation History | |
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| Early Tradition about the Composition of Luke-Acts | |
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| General Historical Criticism: Author, Date, and Place | |
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| Social-Historical Context | |
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| Language, Style, and Literary Features of Luke-Acts | |
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| Sources and Structure of Luke-Acts | |
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| The Delay of the Parousia | |
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| "Salvation History" in Luke-Acts | |
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| The Structure of Luke-Acts | |
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| Exegetical Survey of Luke-Acts | |
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| Further Observations | |
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| The Genre of Luke-Acts | |
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| The Interpretation of Luke-Acts | |
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| Study Questions | |
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| The Gospel and Letters of John: The Literature of the Johannine School | |
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| Early Tradition about the Johannine Literature | |
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| General Historical Criticism: Author, Date, Place | |
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| Textual, Oral Traditional, and Source Questions in the Gospel of John | |
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| The Gospel, the Letters, and the Johannine School | |
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| Language and Style: Johannine Antilanguage | |
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| Social-Historical Context: The Johannine Antisociety | |
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| Johannine Ideation | |
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| Structure and Plot of the Gospel of John | |
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| Exegetical Survey of the Gospel of John | |
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| The First Letter of John | |
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| The Second and Third Letters of John | |
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| Study Questions | |
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| Revelation | |
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| Revelation and the Genre Apocalypse | |
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| Church Tradition about Revelation | |
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| General Historical Criticism of Revelation: Author, Date, and Place | |
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| Social-Historical Context of Revelation | |
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| Language, Style, and Formal Features of Revelation | |
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| Structure and Outline of Revelation | |
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| Exegetical Survey of Revelation | |
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| The Enduring Influence of Apocalyptic | |
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| Study Questions | |
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| The Beginnings of Institutionalism: 1 Peter, James, 1 and 2 Timothy, Titus, Jude, 2 Peter | |
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| 1 Peter and the Petrine Circle | |
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| The Letter of James | |
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| The Pastoral Letters: 1 Timothy, 2 Timothy, Titus | |
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| The Letter of Jude | |
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| The Second Letter of Peter | |
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| The Characteristics of the Emerging Institutional Church | |
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| Pseudonymity in the Literature of Emerging Institutionalism | |
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| The Interpretation of the Literature of the Emerging Institutional Church | |
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| Study Questions | |
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| The Presupposition of the New Testament: Jesus | |
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| The Problem: The Variety of Impressions about Jesus in the Early Jesus Movement | |
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| Modern Quests for the Historical Jesus | |
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| Historical, Social, and Cultural Contexts | |
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| Jesus in Ancient Sources Other Than the New Testament | |
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| Criteria of Probable Authenticity | |
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| Major Features of Jesus' Life | |
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| The Message of Jesus | |
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| Jesus and "the Future" | |
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| The Last Days of Jesus | |
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| From Jesus to the New Testament | |
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| Study Questions | |
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| Form and Contents of the Q Source | |
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| The Canon of the New Testament | |
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| Major Archeological and Textual Discoveries and Publications | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Selected Bibliography | |
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| Credits and Acknowledgments | |
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| Index | |