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About this book
Jesus shaped the New Testament writers in ways that go far beyond what we often notice. This book traces how his life and teaching influenced the way they thought, wrote, and interpreted Scripture, especially in the epistles.
This book explores how Jesus's influence operates beneath the surface. Jesus's teaching informs New Testament arguments, shapes its theology, and guides its readings of the Old Testament. The New Testament writers are not simply passing on information about Jesus. They are writing as people whose thinking has been deeply formed by Jesus's life, teaching, death, and resurrection.
This book argues that early Christian writers and their audiences shared a strong and active knowledge of Jesus's teaching. This shared understanding allowed them to communicate with depth and subtlety, even where Jesus is not directly mentioned.
By tracing these patterns, the book offers a fresh account of how the New Testament came to be and presents a unified vision of writings thoroughly shaped by Jesus.
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Table of contents
- Title Page
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1. Jesus and the Old Testament
- 2. Paul and Jesus
- 3. Letters of Peter, Hebrews, James, and the Impact of Jesus
- 4. John and Revelation
- 5. Early Christian Communities
- Bibliography
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