The New Testament in Its World

An Introduction to the History, Literature, and Theology of the First Christians

N. T. Wright, Michael F. Bird (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

992 Seiten

2019
Zondervan Academic (Verlag)
978-0-310-49930-5 (ISBN)

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The New Testament in Its World by bestselling author N. T. Wright and Michael F. Bird is designed to open readers' eyes to the larger world of the New Testament. Guiding you in how to think like a first-century Christian, it stands to become the definitive introduction on the topic.

Your ticket from the twenty-first century to the era of Jesus and the first Christians. A readable, one-volume introduction placing the entire New Testament and early Christianity in its original context, written by distinguished scholar and author N. T. Wright.

An ideal guide for students, The New Testament in Its World addresses the many difficult questions faced by those studying early Christianity, including:

What was the first century understanding of the Kingdom of God?
What is the meaning of the resurrection in its original context?
What were the Gospels, and how did they come about?
Who was Paul and why are his letters so controversial?

Written for both classroom and personal use, this book brings together decades of ground-breaking research, writing, and teaching into one volume. It presents the New Testament books—along with their subjects: Jesus and the early church—within the historical and social context of Second Temple Judaism and Greco-Roman politics and culture.

The New Testament in Its World allows you to recover the excitement of what it was like to live as Christians in the first or second centuries.

Features include:

Surveys of each New Testament book that discuss their significance and provides commentary on their contents, along with implications for the Christian life.
Major sections on the historical Jesus, the resurrection of Jesus, and Paul's chronology and theology.
Up-to-date discussions of textual criticism and the canonization of the New Testament.
Frequent illustrations, maps, charts, diagrams, and artwork provide additional explanations and insights.
A distillation of the life work of N. T. Wright on the New Testament with input from Michael Bird.

Also available are Video and Workbook companion resources (sold separately) to enhance learning and experience the world of the New Testament.

N. T. Wright is the former bishop of Durham and senior research fellow at Wycliffe Hall, Oxford University. He is one of the world's leading New Testament scholars and the award-winning author of many books, including?After You Believe, Surprised by Hope, Simply Christian, Interpreting Paul, and The New Testament in Its World, as well as the Christian Origins and the Question of God series. Michael F. Bird is Deputy Principal and Lecturer in New Testament at Ridley College,?Australia. He is the author of numerous scholarly and popular books on the New Testament and theology, including, with N. T. Wright, The New Testament in Its World (2019).

1. History, Literature, and Theology
§ 1.1History and Hermeneutics
§ 1.2Worldview and Story

2. The People of God in the Jewish and Graeco-Roman Worlds
§ 2.1History of the Jews Between the Persian and Roman Empires
§ 2.2Roman Empire: Philosophy, Politics, and Pantheon
§ 2.2Diversity in Second Temple Judaism
§ 2.3Story, Symbol, and Praxis in Israel’s Worldview
§ 2.5The Jewish Stories of the Early Church

3. Jesus and the Victory of God
§ 3.1The Quest for the Historical Jesus
§ 3.2Jesus and the Kingdom
§ 3.3Jesus as the Messiah
§ 3.4Jesus and His Death

4. The Resurrection of the Son of God
§ 43.1The Afterlife in Greek, Roman, and Jewish Thought
§ 4.2The Story of Easter according to the Evangelists
§ 4.3The Resurrection according to Paul
§ 4.4Resurrection in Early Christianity
§ 4.5The Meaning of Resurrection for Christian Beginnings and Endings

5. Paul and the Faithfulness of God
§ 5.1Paul: The Man, the Mission, and his Messiah
§ 5.2Romans
§ 5.31–2 Corinthians
§ 5.4Galatians
§ 5.51–2 Thessalonians
§ 5.6Colossians, Philemon, Philippians, Ephesians

6. The Gospels and the Story of God
§ 6.1 The Transmission of the Jesus Tradition
§ 6.2 The Synoptic Problem
§ 6.3 Mark
§ 6.4 Matthew
§ 6.5 Luke–Acts
§ 6.6 John
§ 6.7 The Making of the Fourfold Gospel Canon

7. The Early Christians and the Story of God
§ 7.1Christianity after 70 AD
§ 7.2Paul’s Legacy: Pastorals, Hebrews
§ 7.3John the Elder and his Churches: 1–3 John
§ 7.4Jewish Christianity: Jude, James, 1–2 Peter
§ 7.5John the Seer and the Apocalypse of Jesus Christ

8. The Making of the New Testament
§ 8.1Introduction to Textual Criticism of the New Testament
§ 8.2The Canonization of the New Testament

9. The Mission of the Church
§ 9.1 Worldview
§ 9.2Narrative
§ 9.3Ethics
§ 9.4Tasks

Erscheinungsdatum	04.11.2019
Sprache	englisch
Maße	171 x 241 mm
Gewicht	2075 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
ISBN-10	0-310-49930-5 / 0310499305
ISBN-13	978-0-310-49930-5 / 9780310499305
Zustand	Neuware