The Face of New Testament Studies: A Survey of Recent Research

by Scot McKnight (Editor), Grant R. Osborne (Editor)

Overview

In The Face of New Testament Studies, editors Scot McKnight and Grant R. Osborne bring together New Testament experts who track developments in their specialized fields of research-and why those developments are important. It provides scholars and students with a useful survey of the "state-of-the-question" in New Testament Studies.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780801027079
Publisher:	Baker Publishing Group
Publication date:	05/01/2004
Pages:	544
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

Scot McKnight (Ph.D., University of Nottingham) is professor of New Testament at Northern Seminary in Lisle, Illinois, and the author of several books, including Turning to Jesus. Grant R. Osborne (Ph.D., University of Aberdeen) is professor of New Testament at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School and the author of several books, including Revelation (BECNT) and The Hermeneutical Spiral.

Table of Contents

	List of Contributors	7
	Preface	9
	List of Abbreviations	11
Part 1	Context of the New Testament
1.	Galilee and Judea: The Social World of Jesus	21
2.	The Roman Empire and Asia Minor	36
Part 2	New Testament Hermeneutics
3.	Textual Criticism: Recent Developments	59
4.	Greek Grammar and Syntax	76
5.	General Hermeneutics	104
6.	Embodying the Word: Social-Scientific Interpretation of the New Testament	118
7.	The Old Testament in the New	130
Part 3	Jesus
8.	Jesus of Nazareth	149
9.	Modern Approaches to the Parables	177
10.	The History of Miracles in the History of Jesus	191
11.	John and Jesus	209
Part 4	Earliest Christianity
12.	Acts: Many Questions, Many Answers	229
13.	James, Jesus' Brother	251
14.	Matthew: Christian Judaism or Jewish Christianity?	263
15.	Paul: Life and Letters	283
16.	Paul's Theology	326
17.	Luke	349
18.	The Petrine Epistles: Recent Developments and Trends	373
19.	Mark's Gospel	391
20.	Hebrews in Its First-Century Contexts: Recent Research	414
21.	The Johannine Gospel in Recent Research	444
22.	Recent Trends in the Study of the Apocalypse	473
	Subject Index	505
	Author Index	515
	Scripture Index	533