This informative, clearly written book introduces the New Testament in two main ways: it explain where the New Testament came from and it examines the New Testament writings themselves. The author …
One could argue that the New Testament is the most important collection of ancient writing ever made. Christianity, the religion with the world's largest number of adherents, draws its primary theo…
This book is intended to be a short introduction to the textual criticism of the New Testament. There is, the author believes, need for a work of this kind to provide preliminary studies leading to…
A most helpful book, which succeeds in bridging the gap of twenty centuries to bring the history of the New Testament alive today in a fascinating way.
The author sets out to examine the nature and origins of Pauline Mysticism. In doing this he draws informative comparisons between Pauline and Oriental - Hellenistic mysticism, thus displaying clea…
Today we know very much more about these twentyseven short writings from a little religious subculture in the Roman empire than ever before. Nevertheless, they risk being forgotten--partly because …
This book offers a unique new way of approaching the New Testament -- nothing else like it is in print and will be accessible to a broad readership, although it will also give longtime students of…
This book of the Old Testament prophets abound with enigmas tending to leave the modern reader bewildered. Why did Amos claim not to be a prophet? Did Hosea really marry a harlot at God's command? …
To write a theology of the New Testament, a systematic and ordered presentation of its teaching, is no easy task. The whole of the New Testament is theology that is its reason for being. The Christ…