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| Appendix: Right on Q-Are the Synoptics a Problem? | |
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| Foreword | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| The PlBook | |
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| Background and Foreground | |
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| The Texture of the Text of the New Testament | |
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| The Material Used | |
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| Why a Continuous Flow of Letters? | |
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| The Oral and Rhetorical World of the New Testament | |
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| Implications of What We Have Learned | |
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| The Literature of the New Testament | |
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| What Are the Gospels (and Acts)? | |
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| What about the "Letters" of the New Testament? | |
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| In the End, Apocalypse | |
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| What Is the Story the New Testament Seeks to Tell? | |
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| What Sort of History Is This? | |
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| Implications | |
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| Jesus of Nazareth in His Early Jewish Setting | |
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| Did Jesus Even Exist? | |
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| What Manner of Man Was He? | |
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| What Is a Miracle? | |
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| Were There "Lost Christianities"? | |
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| First Century Family Values ? | |
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| Greece and Rome Will Not Leave Us Alone | |
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| Social History and Ordinary Life | |
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| Implications | |
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| The Gospels and Acts ? | |
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| The Earliest Good News--Mark's Gospel | |
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| Who Was Mark, and When Did He Write? | |
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| How Is Mark's Gospel Arranged? | |
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| The Presentation of and Reflection on Christ in Mark | |
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| Marking Time | |
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| The Kingdom Comes with Teaching and Healing | |
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| A Closer Look: Jesus' Wisdom Teachings--Parables, Aphorisms, Riddles | |
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| The Dramatic, Surprise Ending of Mark's Gospel | |
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| Implications | |
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| The Most Popular Gospel --Matthew? | |
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| A Closer Look: Anonymous Gospels and Later Guesses? | |
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| Describing a Scribe | |
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| The Audience, Date, and Character of Matthew's Gospel | |
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| Matthew's Special Contributions to the Story of Jesus | |
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| The Sermon on the Mount | |
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| The Peter Principle | |
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| Implications | |
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| Luke's Hellenistic, Yet Jewish, Historical Approach to Jesus and "the Way" | |
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| Who Was Theophilus? | |
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| Who Was Luke? | |
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| The Logical and Theological Structuring of Luke--Acts | |
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| The Gospel of the Holy Spirit | |
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| Luke's Views of Jesus | |
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| Implications | |
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| The Last Word on Jesus--The Beloved Disciples' Testimony in the Gospel of John | |
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| First Things | |
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| The Theological Structure of the Fourth Gospel | |
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| A Closer Look: The I Am Sayings | |
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| In Passing--Meaningful Asides in the Gospel of John | |
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| A Glimpse of Glory--Special Moments in the Gospel of John with Nicodemus, the Samaritan Woman, Mary Magdalene, and Peter | |
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| A Closer Look: The Crucifixion of Jesus | |
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| Implications | |
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| Paul and his Rhetorical Letters | |
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| Paul--OUTLI NES of the LIFE and LETTERS of the APOSTLE? | |
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| The Trinity of Paul's Identity | |
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| Paul the Multilingual, Multicultural Apostle | |
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| Rhetoric in the Greco-Roman World | |
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| Paul's Rhetorical Letters | |
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| Implications | |
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| Paul's Narrative Thought World | |
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| Five Stories that Shook and Shaped Paul's World and Worldview | |
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| Implications | |
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| Paul the Letter Writer | |
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| Paul's First Salvo--Galatians | |
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| Romans--The Righteousness of God and the Setting Right of Human Beings | |
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| 1 and 2 Thessalonians | |
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| 1 and 2 Corinthians | |
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| A Closer Look: Paul, Sex, and Women | |
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| The Captivity Epistles | |
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| Implications | |
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| The Pastoral Epistles and the Problem of Pseudonymous Letters | |
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| Why the Authorship Issue Matters | |
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| Epistolary Pseudepigrapha and Intellectual Property in Antiquity--Framing the | |
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| Discussion | |
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| The Pastoral Epistles--What Sort of Rhetoric Is This? | |
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| Implications | |
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| Letters and Homilies for Jewish Christia Ns? | |
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| The Sermon of James the Just--Jesus' Brother | |
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| General Epistles? | |
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| James--A Wisdom Sermon in Encyclical Form | |
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| The Language, Wisdom, and Rhetorical Style of James | |
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| The Authorship and Provenance Question | |
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| What Kind of Document Is James? | |
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| Core Samplings | |
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| Implications | |
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| The Other Brother and his Eschatological Thinking--Jude | |
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| Jude--The Man | |
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| A Closer Look: Galilee and the Hellenizing of the Holy Land | |
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| Jude the Book | |
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| Jude's Audience | |
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| Implications | |
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| The Suffering Servant--1 Peter | |
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| The Social World of Early Christianity | |
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| The Authorship, Audience, and Social Milieu of 1 Peter | |
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| The Rhetorical Outline of 1 Peter | |
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| A Closer Look: The Peter of the New Testament and Early Christian History | |
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| Core Samplings | |
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| Implications | |
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| The Sermon of the Famous Anonymous Preacher-Hebrews | |
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| The Authorship, Audience, and Provenance of Hebrews | |
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| The Rhetoric of Hebrews | |
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| Core Samplings | |
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| Implications | |
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| A Beloved Sermon and Two Elderly Letters--1-3 John | |
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| The Authorship Issues | |
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| The Social Context of the Johannine Epistles | |
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| The Date and Provenance of the Johannine Epistles | |
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| The Rhetorical Structure of 1 John | |
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| The Rhetorical Structure of 2 John | |
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| The Rhetorical Structure of 3 John | |
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| Core Samples--1 John 4 | |
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| Implications | |
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| In The End--Apocalypse--and Thereafter | |
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| Picking up the Pieces, Forming up the Canon--2 Peter | |
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| Preliminary Considerations | |
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| The Mystery That Is 2 Peter | |
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| Putting Together the Pieces | |
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| The Rhetoric of 2 Peter | |
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| Core Samplings--2 Peter 1.12-21 | |
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| Implications | |
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| Book of Revelation | |
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| Who, What, When, Where, and Why? | |
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| The Particularity of Revelation | |
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| The Rhetoric and Resources of Revelation | |
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| Revelation in Its Social Setting in Western Asia Minor | |
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| The Christology of Revelation | |
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| The Genre of Revelation | |
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| Implications | |
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| The Making of the New Testament--Did the Canon Misfire? | |
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| Canon Consciousness and Scripture Consciousness | |
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| The Rise of New Testament Scripture and Canon Consciousness | |
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| The Organizing of Orthodoxy and Orthopraxy | |
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| In the End | |
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| Implications | |
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| Appendix | |