Hearing the New Testament

by Green, Joel B.

• ISBN13: 9780802864208
• ISBN10: 0802864201
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-03-19
• Publisher: Eerdmans Pub Co

Summary

A Distinguished group of scholars here introduces and illustrates the array of strategies and methods used in New Testament study today. Standard approaches text criticism, historical methods, etc. appear side by side with newer approaches narrative criticism, Latino-Latina hermeneutics, theological interpretation of the New Testament, and more. First published in 1995, Hearing the New Testament is now revised and updated, including rewritten chapters, new chapters, and new suggestions for farther reading. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Joel B. Green is professor of New Testament interpretation and associate dean for the Center of Advanced Theological Studies, Fuller Theological Seminary.

Table of Contents

Abbreviations	p. vii
Contributors	p. xi
The Challenge of Hearing the New Testament	p. 1
Textual Criticism of the New Testament	p. 15
Historical Criticism and Social-Scientific Perspectives in New Testament Study	p. 34
The Relevance of Extra canonical Jewish Texts to New Testament Study	p. 65
The Relevance of Greco-Roman Literature and Culture to New Testament Study	p. 85
Traditio-Historicai Criticism	p. 102
The Use of the Old Testament by New Testament Writers	p. 122
Genre Analysis	p. 140
Rhetorical Criticism	p. 166
Modern Linguistics and Word Study in the New Testament	p. 189
Discourse Analysis and New Testament Interpretation	p. 218
Narrative Criticism	p. 240
The Reader in New Testament Interpretation	p. 259
Feminist Criticism	p. 289
African American Criticism	p. 326
Latino/a Hermeneutics	p. 350
Reading the New Testament in Canonical Context	p. 372
The New Testament, Theology, and Ethics	p. 397
Index of Modern Authors	p. 414
Index of Scripture and Other Ancient Sources	p. 423
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