New Testament: a Very Short Introduction

Name: New Testament: a Very Short Introduction
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ISBN: 9780199735709

ISBN-10: 0199735700

ISBN-13: 9780199735709

Edition: 2010

Authors: Luke Timothy Johnson

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As part of the Christian Bible, the New Testament is at once widely influential and (especially among the young and the educated) increasingly unknown. Those who want to know the basics can find in this introduction the sort of information that locates these ancient writings in their historical and literary context. Those who want to learn why these compositions have had such impact can find here an appreciation for the religious experiences of the first Christians that forced themto reinterpret their Jewish and Greek heritage and reshape their symbolic world. In addition to providing the broad conceptual and factual framework for the New Testament --- including the process by which…

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List price: $8.99
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 4/22/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 160
Size: 6.80" wide x 4.30" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.286
Language: English

LUKE TIMOTHY JOHNSON, a former Benedictine monk, is the Robert W. Woodruff Professor of New Testament at the Candler School of Theology, Emory University. He is the author of several books, includingThe Real JesusandLiving Jesus, as well as two Anchor Bible Commentaries,The Letters of JamesandI & II Timothy.




Approaching the New Testament



The New Testament and History



The Resurrection Experience



The Process of Interpretation



Literary Forms



The Synoptic Gospels



Paul and His Letters



Two Hidden Treasures



Johannine Literature



Becoming the New Testament



The Pertinence of the New Testament


The Canonical Arrangement of the New Testament


Chronology


Further reading


Index