New Testament Backgrounds: A Sheffield Reader

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Craig A. Evans, Stanley E. Porter
A&C Black, Feb 1, 1997 - Religion - 335 pages
This new volume collects the best articles on this topic from the first fifty issues of the Journal for the Study of the New Testament. Here readers will find ground-breaking studies that introduce new critical questions and move into fresh areas of enquiry, surveys of the state of play in these particular fields of New Testament study, and articles that engage with each other in specific debates. This volume will make an excellent textbook for students.
 

Contents

Preface to the Series 793
13
CHRISTOPHER ROWLAND
33
ONEILL
46
RICHARD BAUCKHAM
67
DEBORAH BLEICHER CARMICHAEL
89
HEROLD WEISS
109
RICHARD A HORSLEY
124
KLYNE R SNODGRASS
149
RUTH B EDWARDS
190
A H MEAD
203
Hellenistic Parallels to the Acts of the Apostles 2 147
207
DONALDSON
230
J ANDREW OVERMAN
253
ANDREW WILSON
284
Index of References
312
Index of Authors
331

R DE LACEY
169

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About the author (1997)

Craig A. Evans (Ph.D., Claremont) is Payzant Distinguished Professor of New Testament, Acadia Divinity College Wolfville, Nova Scotia, Canada. Stanley E. Porter is Principal, Dean and Professor of New Testament, McMaster Divinity College, Canada.

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