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Author
Publisher
Baker Academic
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
xvi, 432 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
In this volume, a leading expert brings readers up to date on the latest advances in New Testament Greek linguistics. Stanley Porter brings together a number of different studies of the Greek of the New Testament under three headings: texts and tools for analysis, approaching analysis, and doing analysis. He deals with a variety of New Testament texts, including the Synoptic Gospels, John, and Paul. This volume distills a senior scholar's expansive...
Author
Publisher
Baker Academic, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
xviii, 222 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"This volume offers a historical understanding of the writing, transmission, and translation of the New Testament and provides cutting-edge insights into how we got the New Testament in its ancient Greek and modern English forms. The author, a recognized expert in New Testament Greek, offers a student-level summary of a vast amount of historical and textual information. Responding to those who question the New Testament's reliability, Stanley Porter...
Author
Publisher
InterVarsity Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
256 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Did the New Testament canon arise naturally from within the early Christian faith? Were the books written as Scripture, or did they become Scripture? Why did early Christians have a canon at all?
These are the types of questions that led Michael J. Kruger to pick apart modern scholarship's dominant view that the New Testament is a late creation of the church imposed on books originally written for another purpose. Calling into question this commonly...
Author
Publisher
William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
vi, 164 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Throughout history, Christians have expressed their faith through story. They created texts featuring important early Christian figures, like Jesus, Peter, Paul, Mary Magdalene, and Judas, to express their relationships to God and to the world around them. Some of these texts are found in today's New Testament, but there is a wide assortment of other texts that are not included in the Bible. Secret Scriptures Revealed answers, in clear accessible...
Author
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
xiv, 261 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
This book traces the history of the idea that the king and later the messiah is Son of God, from its origins in ancient Near Eastern royal ideology to its Christian appropriation in the New Testament.
Both highly regarded scholars, Adela Yarbro Collins and John J. Collins argue that Jesus was called "the Son of God" precisely because he was believed to be the messianic king. This belief and tradition, they contend, led to the identification of Jesus...
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
xxiv, 872 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"This substantial introduction explores the origin and character of the New Testament writings. Donald Hagner deals with the New Testament both historically and theologically, employing the framework of salvation history. He treats the New Testament as a coherent body of texts and stresses the unity of the New Testament without neglecting its variety. Although the volume covers typical questions of introduction--such as author, date, background, and...
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
xi, 390 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Frederick William Danker, a world-renowned scholar of New Testament Greek, is widely acclaimed for his 2000 revision of Walter Bauer's A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature. With more than a quarter of a million copies in print, it is considered the finest dictionary of its kind. Danker's Concise Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament will prove to be similarly invaluable to ministers, seminarians, translators,...
Author
Series
Linguistic biblical studies volume 9
Publisher
Brill
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
viii, 287 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
SPCK
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
987 pages : color illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The New Testament in Its World brings together decades of ground-breaking research, writing, and teaching into one volume that will open readers' eyes to the larger world of the New Testament. It presents the New Testament books as historical, literary, and social phenomena located in the world of Second Temple Judaism, amidst Greco-Roman politics and culture, and within early Christianity. "--
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
xxviii, 1239 pages ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
Readers of the New Testament often encounter quotes or allusions to Old Testament stories and prophecies that are unfamiliar or obscure. In order to fully understand the teachings of Jesus and his followers, it is important to understand the large body of Scripture that preceded and informed their thinking. Leading evangelical scholars G. K. Beale and D. A. Carson have brought together a distinguished team to provide readers with a comprehensive commentary...