Subject: Bart's New Book

From: Jim West <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 01 Oct 1996 10:34:10 -0400 (EDT)

Colleagues,

For your information, Bart Ehrman's new book, "The New Testament: A
Historical Introduction to the Early Christian Writings" is now out. (By OUP).
The Publication date is 1997  !
The chapters are
1- What is the New Testament?  The Early Christians and their Literature
2- The World of Early Christian Traditions
3- The Traditions of Jesus in their greco-Roman Context
4- The Christian Gospels: A Literary and Historical Introduction
5- Jesus, the Suffering Son of God; The Gospel According to Mark
6- The Synoptic Problem and Its Significance for Interpretation
7- Jesus the Jewish Messiah: The Gospel According to Matthew
8- Jesus the Savior of the World: the Gospel According to Luke
9- Luke's Second Volume: The Acts of the Apostles
10- Jesus, the Man Sent from Heaven: The Gospel According to John
11- From John's Jesus to the Gnostic Christ
12- Jesus from Different Perspectives: Other Gospels in Early Christianity
13- The Historical Jesus: Sources, Problems and Methods
14- The Historian and the Problem of Miracle
15- Jesus the Apocalyptic Prophet
16- From Jesus to the Gospels
17- Paul the Apostle; the man and his Mission
18- Paul and his Apostolic Mission; Thessalonians as a test Case
19- Paul and the Crises of His Churches
20- The Gospel According to Paul
21- Does the Tradition Miscarry?
22- In the Wake of the Apostle
23- From Paul's Female Colleagues to the Pastor's Intimidated Women: The
Oppression of Women in early Christianity
24- Christians and Jews
25- Christians and Pagans
26- Christians and Christians
27- Christians and the Cosmos
28- Epilogue: Do we Have the Original New Testament?

The book has 421 pages, lots of illustrations, and appears to be excellent.

Perhaps many of the questions we have recently discussed are addressed here.

Jim

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Jim West
Petros TN