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The First Christian Historian
As the first historian of Christianity, Luke’s reliability is vigorously disputed among scholars. The author of the Acts is often accused of being a biased, imprecise, and …
The Torn Veil
In this 2006 text, Daniel M. Gurtner examines the meaning of the rending of the veil at the death of Jesus in Matthew 27:51a by considering the functions of the veil in the Old …
'And so we Came to Rome '
This book raises questions about Luke's apology, and refutes the traditional view that he was writing an apologia pro ecclesia.
The Faith of Jesus Christ in Early Christian Traditions
We are used to the idea of people believing in Christ, but did the early church consider that Jesus also had faith in God? This book evaluates the evidence, starting with a survey …
The New Testament Concept of Witness
Terms like ‘witness' and ‘testimony' occur frequently in religious contexts and have special significance there, culminating in the development of the Greek martus (witness) into …
Medicine, Miracle and Magic in New Testament Times
This book sketches and illustrates in detail the range of understandings of the human condition and remedies for ills that prevailed when Jesus and the apostles - as well as their …
Feasting and Social Rhetoric in Luke 14
The writer of the Gospel of Luke is a Hellenistic writer who uses conventional modes of narration, characterisation and argumentation to present Jesus in the manner of the familiar …
Redactional Style in the Marcan Gospel
St Mark's Gospel was put together from oral and perhaps written source material, which the redactor-editor edited and linked together by `seams' or joining phrases. The evangelist …
Divine Regeneration and Ethnic Identity in 1 Peter
In this book, Katie Marcar examines how 1 Peter draws together metaphors of family, ethnicity, temple, and priesthood to describe Christian identity. She examines the precedents …
Righteousness in Matthew and his World of Thought
While New Testament scholars generally agree that the concept of righteousness occupies an important place in the Gospel of Matthew, there is no scholarly consensus as to the …
Irony in Mark's Gospel
The author of this lucid and interdisciplinary study of Mark's Gospel believes that - when applied to Gospel texts - sociological analysis and literary criticism may be far closer …