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Product Details
The completely revised and updated version of Johnson's very successful introduction to the New Testament (1999) is now available! Johnson organizes his presentation in six major sections:
- The Symbolic World of the New Testament
- The Christian Experience
- The Synoptic Tradition
- Pauline Traditions
- Other Canonical Witnesses
- The Johannine Tradition
From the preface to the first edition:
"I have written this book for those who want to understand the origin and shape of the New Testament writings but are unable to find a comprehensive introduction that is neither repellingly technical nor appallingly trivial. I have called it an interpretation rather than an introduction for the simple reason that most volumes going by the name of introduction are either handbooks devoted to the communication of information concerning a narrow range of scholarly issues or popularized versions of conventional scholarly wisdom for college students. In contrast to both, I have tried to provide a genuine interpretation of Christianity's earliest writings. By so doing I draw the reader into the most important critical questions concerning their understanding. In this sense, every interpretation is also an introduction. By no means is every introduction an interpretation."
From the introduction:
"This book serves as an introduction to the writings of the New Testament (NT). Its subject is a set of writings ordinarily found with another collection in the large anthology called the Bible. These writings came to birth in a specific time and place and were generated by specific causes. It may seem odd to think of the "birth" of literature, but the word is a reminder that what the reader now meets as an ancient text began as a living expressiion of living experienc, and entered the world with a still visible parentage."
694 pages, 2002
About the Author
Luke Timothy Johnson, the author of the Introduction, Commentary, and Reflections on the Letter of James, is Robert W. Woodruff Professor of New Testament and Christian Origins at the Candler School of Theology, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia. His works include The Real Jesus: The Misguided Quest for the Historical Jesus and the Trust of the Traditional Gospels and The Letter of James, in the Anchor Bible series.
Augsburg Fortress Collection (18 Titles)
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