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The New Testament
About this book
There is no better book than this to introduce any reader to the New Testament.
Gerd Theissen presents all the main issues straightforwardly, but with a depth of scholarship and brilliance of analysis that is unsurpassed. Gerd Theissen's approach is so interesting and illuminating that anyone considering the New Testament for the first time, and even experienced students, will value this book immeasurably.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Contents
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- 1. The 'New Testament' and its Literary Forms
- 2. Jesus of Nazareth
- 3. The Jesus Tradition in the First Generations: The Logia Source and the Oral Tradition of Jesus
- 4. Paul of Tarsus
- 5. The Beginnings of the Letter Literature in the First Generation: The Letters of Paul
- 6. The Synoptic Gospels and the Acts of the Apostles: The New Form of Literature in the Second and Third Generations
- 7. Pseudepigraphical Letters: The Gontinuation of the Literature of the First Generation
- 8. Johannine Writings: The Link between Gospel and Letter Literature
- 9. The Way to the 'New Testament' as a Literary Unity
- Further Reading
- Glossary
- Index of Biblical References