Introducing the New Testament
A Historical, Literary, and Theological Survey
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Box 1.1. Between the TestamentsDownload
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Box 1.2. Basic New Testament ChronologyDownload
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Box 1.3. Pharisees and SadduceesDownload
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Box 1.4. Major Philosophical SchoolsDownload
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Box 2.1. Christian Worship in the Second CenturyDownload
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Box 3.1. Historical Significance of JesusDownload
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Box 2.2. From Jesus to UsDownload
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Box 3.2. The Kingdom of God in the Teaching of JesusDownload
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Box 3.3. A Historian’s Biography of Jesus: An ExcerptDownload
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Box 3.4. Images and Titles for Jesus in the New TestamentDownload
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Box 4.1. Four Pictures of JesusDownload
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Box 4.2. Characteristics of Ancient BiographiesDownload
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Box 4.3. Parables in the GospelsDownload
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Box 4.4. Miracle Stories in the GospelsDownload
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Box 4.5. Pronouncement Stories in the Gospels: Some ExamplesDownload
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Box 4.6. Sayings of JesusDownload
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Box 4.7. The Dying Words of JesusDownload
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Box 4.8. Contents of Q: Material in Matthew and Luke but Not in MarkDownload
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Box 5.1. Material Unique to Matthew’s GospelDownload
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Box 5.2. Matthew’s Use of MarkDownload
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Box 5.3. The Presence of God in the Gospel of MatthewDownload
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Box 6.1. Papias on the Gospel of MarkDownload
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Box 6.2. John Mark in the Early ChurchDownload
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Box 6.3. Possible Sources for Mark’s GospelDownload
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Box 6.4. Material Unique to Mark’s GospelDownload
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Box 6.5. Intercalation in the Gospel of MarkDownload
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Box 6.6. The Way of the CrossDownload
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Box 7.1. Material Unique to Luke’s GospelDownload
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Box 7.2. Luke’s Use of MarkDownload
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Box 7.3. Expanding Mark: How Matthew and Luke Arranged Their GospelsDownload
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Box 7.4. Male/Female Parallels in the Gospel of LukeDownload
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Box 7.5. Salvation in the Gospel of LukeDownload
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Box 8.1. Two Books in OneDownload
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Box 8.2. The Apostle John in the New TestamentDownload
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Box 8.3. The Beloved Disciple in John’s GospelDownload
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Box 8.4. Possible Sources for John’s GospelDownload
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Box 8.5. Some Stories about Jesus Unique to John’s GospelDownload
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Box 8.6. Material Not Found in John’s GospelDownload
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Box 9.1. Possible Sources for the Book of ActsDownload
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Box 9.2. Discrepancies between the Book of Acts and Paul’s LettersDownload
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Box 9.3. How to Write SpeechesDownload
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Box 9.4. Parallels between Luke’s Gospel and the Book of ActsDownload
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Box 9.5. The Centrality of Jerusalem in Luke-ActsDownload
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Box 9.6. Salvation in the Book of ActsDownload
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Box 9.7. Church of JoyDownload
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Box 10.1. Types of Letters and Their Different FunctionsDownload
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Box 10.2. Authorship and Pseudepigraphy: Levels of AuthenticityDownload
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Box 11.1. Sources for Studying Paul’s Life and ThoughtDownload
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Box 11.2. Paul’s Conversion: A Change of Heart and MindDownload
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Box 11.3. What Did Paul Look Like?Download
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Box 11.4. Chronology for Paul’s LifeDownload
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Box 11.5. Chronology for Paul’s LettersDownload
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Box 11.6. Effects of the Christ EventDownload
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Box 11.7. The New Perspective on PaulDownload
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Box 12.1. The Conversion of AugustineDownload
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Box 12.2. The End of the LawDownload
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Box 12.3. Christianity Comes to RomeDownload
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Box 12.5. Phoebe, Prisca, JuniaDownload
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Box 12.4. Condemnation of Homosexual ActsDownload
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Box 12.7. Models for Understanding JustificationDownload
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Box 12.6. Some Key Verses in RomansDownload
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Box 12.8. Why Not Sin?Download
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Box 12.9. The New Perspective on Paul: An ExampleDownload
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Box 13.1. Point/CounterpointDownload
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Box 13.3. 1 Corinthians 13—King James VersionDownload
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Box 13.2. Say What? Some Puzzles in 1 CorinthiansDownload
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Box 14.1. Correspondence with the CorinthiansDownload
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Box 14.2. The Lost Letters: Have They Been Found?Download
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Box 14.3. Paul in Christian LegendsDownload
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Box 15.1. CircumcisionDownload
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Box 15.2. The Polemic of GalatiansDownload
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Box 15.3. Northern and Southern Galatian TheoriesDownload
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Box 15.4. Did Paul Have Bad Eyesight?Download
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Box 15.5. What to Do with Gentiles?Download
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Box 15.6. The Incident at AntiochDownload
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Box 15.7. Some Complicated ArgumentsDownload
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Box 16.2. Parallels between Ephesians and ColossiansDownload
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Box 16.1. Powerful Spiritual BeingsDownload
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Box 16.4. The Christian HouseholdDownload
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Box 16.3. Distinctive Aspects of EphesiansDownload
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Box 17.1. Rubbish and ChristDownload
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Box 17.2. Trouble in PhilippiDownload
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Box 17.4. The Christ HymnDownload
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Box 17.3. Hymns in New Testament LettersDownload
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Box 17.5. Euodia and SyntycheDownload
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Box 17.6. Bishops and DeaconsDownload
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Box 18.1. Nailed to the CrossDownload
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Box 18.2. Colossians and PhilemonDownload
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Box 18.4. Development of Pauline Ideas in ColossiansDownload
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Box 18.3. Distinctive Aspects of ColossiansDownload
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Box 18.6. Archippus the Procrastinator?Download
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Box 18.5. Worldwide Evangelism: Is Paul Exaggerating?Download
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Box 19.1. Evangelical RemindersDownload
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Box 19.2. The Jews and God’s WrathDownload
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Box 19.3. Faith, Love, and HopeDownload
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Box 19.4. Kissing ChristiansDownload
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Box 19.5. Good GriefDownload
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Box 19.6. Caught Up in the CloudsDownload
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Box 20.1. What Was the Rumor?Download
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Box 20.2. Who (or What) Is the Restrainer?Download
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Box 20.3. Christian FreeloadersDownload
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Box 21.1. Timothy: A Biographical SketchDownload
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Box 21.2. Titus: A Biographical SketcDownload
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Box 21.3. Proposed Historical Situations for the Pastoral LettersDownload
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Box 21.4. Did Paul Write the Pastoral Letters? Why Doubt It?Download
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Box 21.5. The Office of WidowsDownload
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Box 21.7. Married Only Once?Download
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Box 21.6. Concern for Social Respectability in the Pastoral LettersDownload
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Box 22.1. Slavery in the Roman WorldDownload
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Box 22.2. Sanctuary for a Runaway ServantDownload
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Box 22.3. Was Paul an Old Man?Download
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Box 23.1. Why Don’t the Quotations Match?Download
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Box 22.4. Paul Is WittyDownload
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Box 23.2. The Basics of FaithDownload
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Box 23.3. Something BetterDownload
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Box 23.5. Perfection in HebrewsDownload
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Box 23.4. The Divine and Human Christ in HebrewsDownload
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Box 23.6. Some Favorite Terms in HebrewsDownload
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Box 24.1. James and the Wisdom TraditionDownload
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Box 24.2. James and Other Brothers of JesusDownload
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Box 24.3. Twelve Tribes in the DispersionDownload
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Box 24.5. Rich and Poor in JamesDownload
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Box 24.4. Propositions about God in the Letter of JamesDownload
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Box 25.2. Parallels between 1 Peter and Other New Testament WritingsDownload
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Box 25.1. Martyrdom of PeterDownload
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Box 25.3. Silvanus and MarkDownload
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Box 25.4. Images for the Church in 1 PeterDownload
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Box 25.6. Postscript to 1 Peter: Persecution in Bithynia-PontusDownload
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Box 25.5. The Weaker Vessel: Women and Wives in 1 PeterDownload
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Box 26.1. Parallels between Jude and 2 Peter<Download
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Box 26.2. Did Peter Write 2 Peter?Download
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Box 26.3. 2 Peter as a TestamentDownload
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Box 26.4. 2 Peter’s Redaction of JudeDownload
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Box 27.2. Similarities between the Johannine Letters and the Gospel of JohnDownload
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Box 27.1. Accolades for 1 JohnDownload
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Box 27.3. Who Is the Elect Lady?Download
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Box 27.5. Affirmation in 1 JohnDownload
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Box 27.4. Dualism in 1 JohnDownload
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Box 28.1. Infamous Sinners of the PastDownload
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Box 28.2. On Keeping and Being KeptDownload
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Box 29.1. Some Common Features of ApocalypsesDownload
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Box 29.3. Millennium, Tribulation, RaptureDownload
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Box 29.2. GematriaDownload
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Figure 4.6. Suggested Solutions to the Synoptic PuzzleDownload