The New Testament
A Thematic Introduction
- Biblical Studies & Commentaries
- Publisher: Fortress Press (Augsburg Fortress)
- Published: 1994
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Publisher's Description
This book reflects J. Christiaan Beker's experience of more than twenty years of teaching and introductory courses in New Testament. In distinction from a history-of-religions approach, he aims at allowing the theological thrust of the New Testament to become transparent for today's readers. The work pre-supposes the normative and canonical claim of the New Testament for all forms of Christian theology. Beker concentrates on some of the most central issues within the New Testament by surveying sixteen of the twenty-seven books of the New Testament. A chronological sequence is followed, beginning with Paul's letters.
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“Here is an introduction to the New Testament of a distinctly different kind! Instead of dealing with each New Testament document in terms of such traditional questions as those of authorship, place, date, and so on, this introduction is literary and theological in nature. It is literary because it attends to the genre, structure, and rhetoric of each document it discusses. It is theological because it treats key themes in each document that touch on the heart of the author's theology. Importantly, it also addresses the seemingly intractable questions posed today concerning the unity, diversity, and authority of the New Testament. Lucid, provocative, and insightful, this book will be found by students and pastors to be of immediate relevance for their ongoing study of scripture.”
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