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• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Illustrations
• Preface
• Abbreviations
• Part 1: Introduction and Background
• 1. Approaching the New Testament as the Church’s Scripture
• 2. The Old Testament as Promise and Preparation
• 3. The World of the New Testament
• Part 2: The Gospels: The Proclamation of the Kingdom
• 4. The Gospels as Historical and Theological Documents
• 5. The Message of Jesus
• 6. The “Historical” Jesus
• 7. The Origin and Reliability of the Gospel Tradition
• 8. Form and Redaction Criticism
• 9. The Synoptic Problem
• 10. Q as an Entity
• 11. The Gospel according to Mark
• 12. The Gospel according to Matthew
• 13. The Gospel according to Luke(-Acts)
• 14. The Gospel according to John
• Part 3: Acts: The Earliest Preaching of the Kingdom
• 15. From the Preaching of Jesus to the Kerygma of the Early Church
• 16. Acts as a Book of Key Transitions
• Part 4: Paul and His Epistles: The Interpretation of the Kingdom
• 17. Paul, the Man
• 18. Jesus and Paul
• 19. Paul, Judaism, and the Law
• 20. Paul’s Gospel and the Parting of the Ways
• 21. Paul’s Christology and Eschatology
• 22. Letters in the Hellenistic World
• 23. The Missionary Paul
• 24. The Authorship Question
• 25. Galatians
• 26. First and Second Thessalonians
• 27. First Corinthians
• 28. Second Corinthians
• 29. Romans
• 30. Philippians
• 31. Colossians and Philemon
• Part 5: The Deutero-Pauline Letters: Extending the Teaching of the Apostle
• 32. Ephesians
• 33. The Tendencies of “Early Catholicism”
• 34. The Pastoral Epistles
• Part 6: Hebrews and the Catholic Epistles: Non-Pauline Christianity
• 35. The Book of Hebrews
• 36. James
• 37. First Peter
• 38. Jude and Second Peter
• 39. The Johannine Epistles
• Part 7: The Apocalypse: The Consummation of the Kingdom
• 40. The Message of the Apocalypse
• 41. The Apocalypse
• Part 8: The Text and Canon of the New Testament
• 42. The Transmission of the Text
• 43. The Formation of the Canon
• A Final Word
• Author Index
• Ancient Writings Index
• Subject Index
• Notes
• Back Cover