The New Testament, an Introduction: Proclamation and Parenesis, Myth and History

xii, 385 pp. CONTENTS: Approaching the New Testament; The Nature of the New Testament; A Theological History of New Testament Christianity; Apocalyptic Christianity; Paul and His Letters; Deutero-Pauline Christianity; The Gospel of Mark: The Apocalyptic Drama; The Gospel of Matthew: Christianity as Obedience to the New Revelation; The Gospel of Luke and Acts of the Apostles: The Idea of Salvation History; The Gospel and Letters of John: The Literature of the Johannine School; The Church on the Way to Becoming an Institution: The Literature of Emergent Catholicism; The Presupposition of the New Testament: Jesus; Epilogue: Ways of Being Religious in the New Testament; Appendices: The Hellenistic World in New Testament Times, The Historical Situation of the Jewish People in the New Testament Period, The Canon of the Bible, The Text of the New Testament, English Translations of the Greek New Testament; Bibliography; Glossary; Index of Names and Subjects; Index of Passages in the Synoptic Gospels; Index of Biblical References, by Chapter and Verse.