Full Description
2023 Word Guild Award Winner (Biblical Studies)
This paradigm-shifting study is the first book-length investigation into the compositional dates of the New Testament to be published in over forty years. It argues that, with the notable exception of the undisputed Pauline Epistles, most New Testament texts were composed twenty to thirty years earlier than is typically supposed by contemporary biblical scholars. What emerges is a revised view of how quickly early Christians produced what became the seminal texts for their new movement.
Contents
Contents
Introduction
Part 1: The Synoptic Gospels and Acts
1. Synchronization
2. Contextualization and Authorial Biography
Part 2: The Johannine Tradition
3. The Gospel of John
4. The Epistles of John and Revelation
Part 3: The Pauline Corpus
5. Critical Matters in Dating the Pauline Corpus
6. The Compositional Dates of the Pauline Corpus
Part 4: Hebrews and the Letters of James, Peter, and Jude
7. Hebrews and James
8. 1 and 2 Peter and Jude
Part 5: Early Extracanonical Writings
9. 1 Clement and the Didache
10. The Epistle of Barnabas and the Shepherd of Hermas
Conclusion
Indexes
