The New Testament in Comparison: Validity, Method, and Purpose in Comparing Traditions (Library of New Testament Studies | LNTS)
Overview
The nine essays in this volume, written by leading international scholars in New Testament studies, examine in new depth the method of comparison so frequently deployed in the study of the New Testament. They raise and reflect on deep questions on the possibility and validity of such comparative exercise, on the methods that are most effective and intellectually defensible, on the purpose of such comparison, and on the perils and pitfalls in such exercises. Addressing these questions at both a theoretical, hermeneutical level, and through case-studies of actual examples, the book provides a much needed and up-to-date methodological resource for the numerous comparative projects spawned by New Testament studies throughout the world.
- Combines particular examples of comparison with a wider discussion of method and theory
- Provides a catalyst for continuing reflection on comparisons in New Testament studies
- Explores how comparison in New Testament studies is best described and justified
- Introduction - John M.G. Barclay
- ‘O wad some Pow’r the giftie gie us, To see oursels as others see us’: Method and Purpose in Comparing the New Testament - John M.G. Barclay
- Making Friends and Comparing Lives - C. Kavin Rowe
- The Past is a Foreign Country: On the Shape and Purposes of Comparison in New Testament Scholarship - Troels Engberg-Pedersen
- The Possibility of Comparison, the Necessity of Anachronism and the Dangers of Purity - Dale B. Martin
- Beyond Compare, or: Some Recent Strategies for How Not to Compare Early Christianity with Other Things - Matthew V. Novenson
- On Comparing and Calling the Question - Margaret M. Mitchell
- A Response to Friend-Critics - C. Kavin Rowe
- Relational Hermeneutics and Comparison as Conversation - Jonathan A. Linebaugh
- Comparing Like with Like? The New Testament in its Christian Literary Environment - Francis Watson
- Resemblance and Relation: Comparing the Gospels of Mark, John and Thomas - Simon Gathercole
- Title: The New Testament in Comparison: Validity, Method, and Purpose in Comparing Traditions
- Editors: John M.G. Barclay and Benjamin G. White
- Series: Library of New Testament Studies (LNTS)
- Publisher: T&T Clark
- Publication Date: 2020
- Pages: 216
- Resource Type: Collected Essays
- Topic: New Testament
John M.G. Barclay is Lightfoot Professor of Divinity at the University of Durham, UK.
Benjamin G. White is Assistant Professor of Biblical Studies at The King College, New York City, USA.