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Fortress introduction to the New Testament / Gerd Theissen ; translated by John Bowden.
Van Pelt Library BS2330.3 .T435 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Theissen, Gerd
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bible. New Testament--Introductions.
- Bible.
- Bible. New Testament--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bible. New Testament.
- Genre:
- Introductions.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 206 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- Fortress Press edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis, MN : Fortress Press, 2003.
- Summary:
- Readers: General readers (college level); college, university, and seminary students; New Testament scholars
- Contents:
- 1. The 'New Testament' and Its Literary Forms 1
- 2. Jesus of Nazareth 15
- 3. The Jesus Tradition in the First Generations: The Logia Source and the Oral Tradition of Jesus 27
- The sources of the gospels: the synoptic question 28
- Traditions of the itinerant charismatics: the logia source 34
- Traditions of the local communities: the passion and the synoptic apocalypse 41
- Popular traditions: the miracle stories 44
- 4. Paul of Tarsus 47
- 5. The Beginnings of the Letter Literature in the First Generation: The Letters of Paul 59
- 1 Thessalonians
- a letter arising out of the situation 59
- The anti-Judaizing letters: Galatians and Philippians 62
- (a) Galatians 62
- (b) Philippians 67
- (c) Philemon 69
- The anti-enthusiastic letters: the letters to the Corinthians 70
- (a) Paul and the community in Corinth 71
- (b) 1 Corinthians 77
- (c) 2 Corinthians 79
- The theological synthesis: Romans as Paul's 81
- 6. The Synoptic Gospels and the Acts of the Apostles: The New Form of Literature in the Second and Third Generations 91
- The Gospel of Mark 96
- The Gospel of Matthew 102
- Luke-Acts 108
- Writing the gospels and directing the community 118
- (a) The Gospel of Mark 119
- (b) The Gospel of Matthew 121
- (c) Luke-Acts 122
- 7. Pseudepigraphical Letters: The Continuation of the Literature of the First Generation 125
- The origin of the pseudepigraphy of primitive Christianity 126
- The Deutero-Pauline letters 131
- (a) 2 Thessalonians 131
- (b) Colossians 133
- (c) Ephesians 134
- (d) The Pastoral letters 136
- The Catholic letters 137
- (a) 1 Peter 138
- (b) James 139
- (c) Jude 140
- (d) 2 Peter 141
- Hebrews 141
- 8. Johannine Writings: The Link between Gospel and Letter Literature 145
- The Gospel of John 146
- The Johannine letters 160
- (a) 1 John 161
- (b) 2 and 3 John 162
- The Apocalypse of John 163
- 9. The Way to the 'New Testament' as a Literary Unity 171.
- ISBN:
- 0800636228
- OCLC:
- 52899464
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