An Introduction to the New Testament, Second Edition
Studying the New Testament requires a determination to encounter this collection of writings on its own terms. This classic introduction by Charles B. Puskas, revised with C. Michael Robbins, provides helpful guidance. Since the publication of the first edition, which was in print for twenty years, a host of new and diverse cultural, historical, social-scientific, socio-rhetorical, narrative, textual, and contextual studies has been examined. Attentive also to the positive reviews of the first edition, the authors retain the original tripartite arrangement on 1) the world of the New Testament, 2) interpreting the New Testament, and 3) Jesus and early Christianity. This volume supplies readers with pertinent primary and secondary material. The new edition carries on a genuine effort to be nonsectarian, and although it is more of a critical introduction than a general survey, it is recommended to midlevel college and seminary students and to anyone who wants to be better informed about the New Testament.
"This second edition of An Introduction to the New Testament by
Puskas and Robbins is a literarily sensitive, historically oriented
volume. It provides a framework to the New Testament that will help
readers appreciate the complex world out of which the New Testament
arose and gain an understanding of what is involved in the exegesis
of New Testament texts today. I recommend this text for use in
undergraduate and seminary classes that offer an academic approach
to the New Testament."
--Mark Reasoner
Associate Professor of Theology
Marian University
"This second edition of An Introduction to the New Testament by
Puskas and Robbins is a literarily sensitive, historically oriented
volume. It provides a framework to the New Testament that will help
readers appreciate the complex world out of which the New Testament
arose and gain an understanding of what is involved in the exegesis
of New Testament texts today. I recommend this text for use in
undergraduate and seminary classes that offer an academic approach
to the New Testament."
--Mark Reasoner
Associate Professor of Theology
Marian University
Product Details
- Title : An Introduction to the New Testament, Second Edition
- Authors:
- Puskas, Charles B.
- Robbins, C. Michael
- Publisher: Cascade Books
- Publication Date: 2011
- ISBN: 9781621893318
Charles Puskas has over twenty years experience in the
publishing industry as an academic editor, trade sales
representative, senior reference editor, and field sales manager
with three major religious publishing companies: Augsburg Fortress,
Abingdon, Eerdmans Publishing Company. Puskas earned his PhD in
Biblical Languages and Literature from Saint Louis University, and
has spent twelve years teaching biblical studies and theology at
four private colleges and two public universities. He is the author
of The General Letters, Hebrews and Revelation, The Letters of
Paul: An Introduction (1993, 2013), An Introduction to the
New Testament (with Michael Robbins; Cascade, 2011), and The
Conclusion of Luke-Acts: The Significance of Acts 28:16-31
(Pickwick, 2009).
C. Michael Robbins is an adjunct professor of religion and
philosophy in the Haggard School of Theology at Azusa Pacific
University. He is the author of The Testing of Jesus in Q (2007)
and with Steven Johnson has helped revise James Allen Hewett's New
Testament Greek, with CD-ROM (2009).
