Rethinking the dates of the New Testament : the evidence for early composition / Jonathan Bernier.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bernier, Jonathan, author.

Contributor:

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Manuscript dating.

Authorship.

Bible. New Testament--Authorship--Date of authorship.

Bible.

Bible. New Testament.

Physical Description:

xvii, 318 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Grand Rapids, Michigan : Baker Academic, a division of Baker Publishing Group, [2022]

Summary:

This paradigm-shifting study is the first book-length investigation into the compositional dates of the New Testament to be published in over forty years. It argues that, with the notable exception of the undisputed Pauline Epistles, most New Testament texts were composed twenty to thirty years earlier than is typically supposed by contemporary biblical scholars. What emerges is a revised view of how quickly early Christians produced what became the seminal texts for their new movement.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: pt. 1 The Synoptic Gospels and Acts

1. Synchronization

2. Contextualization and Authorial Biography

pt. 2 The Johannine Tradition

3. The Gospel of John

4. The Epistles of John and Revelation

pt. 3 The Pauline Corpus

5. Critical Matters in Dating the Pauline Corpus

6. The Compositional Dates of the Pauline Corpus

pt. 4 Hebrews and the Letters of James, Peter, and Jude

7. Hebrews and James

8. 1 and 2 Peter and Jude

pt. 5 Early Extracanonical Writings

9. 1 Clement and the Didache

10. The Epistle of Barnabas and the Shepherd of Hermas.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-297) and indexes.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

ISBN:

9781540961808

154096180X

9781540965264

1540965260

OCLC:

1260240176

Publisher Number:

99990939462