The New Testament

A Historical and Theological Introduction

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1. Approaching the New Testament as the Church’s Scripture 2. The Old Testament as Promise and Preparation 3. The World of the New Testament 4. The Gospels as Historical and Theological Documents 5. The Message of Jesus 6. The “Historical” Jesus 7. The Origin and Reliability of the Gospel Tradition 8. Form and Redaction Criticism 9. The Synoptic Problem 10. Q as an Entity 11. The Gospel according to Mark 12. The Gospel according to Matthew 13. The Gospel according to Luke(-Acts) 14. The Gospel according to John 15. From the Preaching of Jesus to the Kerygma of the Early Church 16. Acts as a Book of Key Transitions 17. Paul, the Man 18. Jesus and Paul 19. Paul, Judaism, and the Law 20. Paul’s Gospel and the Parting of the Ways 21. Paul’s Christology and Eschatology 22. Letters in the Hellenistic World 23. The Missionary Paul 24. The Authorship Question 25. Galatians 26. First and Second Thessalonians 27. First Corinthians 28. Second Corinthians 29. Romans 30. Philippians 31. Colossians and Philemon 32. Ephesians 33. The Tendencies of “Early Catholicism” 34. The Pastoral Epistles 35. The Book of Hebrews 36. James 37. First Peter 38. Jude and Second Peter 39. The Johannine Epistles 40. The Message of the Apocalypse 41. The Apocalypse 42. The Transmission of the Text 43. The Formation of the Canon