Description
Book SynopsisA true ""Reference Edition"", this book provides thorough, detailed, and exacting overviews, background material, and textual analysis. Carl Holladay leads readers to consider questions of canon, authority, and genre that shape the formation of the text and the text's formation of the identity, theology, and mission of the church today.
Table of Contents
- List of Maps, Figures, Tables, and Plates
- Preface to the Reference Edition
- Preface to the First Edition
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part 1. Theology and Scripture
- 1. The New Testament as Theological Writings
- 2. The Shape of the Canon
- Part 2. The Gospels: Narrative Traditions About Jesus
- 3. Relating the Gospels to Each Other
- 4. From Jesus to the Gospels
- 5. From the Gospels to Jesus
- 6. The Gospel of Mark
- 7. The Gospel of Matthew
- 8. The Gospel of Luke
- 9. The Gospel of John
- Part 3. The Story of Jesus Continued: The Church's Origin and Expansion
- 10. The Acts of the Apostles
- Part 4. The Pauline Letters and Hebrews
- 11. Reading the Pauline Letters
- 12. The Thessalonian Letters
- 13. The Corinthian Letters
- 14. Galatians
- 15. Romans
- 16. Philippians
- 17. Philemon
- 18. Colossians
- 19. Ephesians
- 20. The Pastoral Letters
- 21. Hebrews
- Part 5. The Catholic Letters
- 22. James
- 23. First Peter
- 24. Jude
- 25. Second Peter
- 26. The Johannine Letters
- Part 6. Jesus in the Apocalyptic Imagination
- 27. Revelation
- Part 7. The New Testament as the Church's Book: The Formation of the New Testament Canon
- 28. The Christian Scriptures
- Appendix 1. Ancient Canonical Lists
- Appendix 2. Early Christian Views of the Gospels
