The New Testament
A Historical and Theological Introduction
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Chapters
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