Introduction to the New Testament

by COLLINS, RAYMOND

• ISBN13: 9780385235341
• ISBN10: 0385235348
• eBook ISBN(s): 9780307575470
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1987-01-20
• Publisher: Galilee Trade
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Summary

Published to widespread critical acclaim, this is an impressive and sweeping study of the New Testament canon: the preeminent source of Christian doctrine and the center of scholarly discussion/controversy for decades. Introduction to the New Testament presents the full spectrum of thought regarding the New Testament with clarity and completeness, and is a welcome and prestigious entry to this most important field of study.

Author Biography

Raymond Collins is a Roman Catholic priest and an interpreter of the New Testament. As a professor, he has taught at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and the Catholic University of America. His books include Introduction to the New Testament and Birth of the New Testament: The Origin & Development of the First Christian Generation, among others.

Table of Contents

List of Abbreviations	p. xii
Abbreviations of the Names of Biblical Books (with the Apocrypha)	p. xiv
Introduction	p. xv
Preface	p. xxvii
The Formation of the New Testament	p. 1
The First Christian Writings	p. 4
Authority	p. 4
The Scriptures	p. 5
The Word of the Lord	p. 5
The Twelve, and Paul	p. 6
The Holy Spirit	p. 7
The Scriptures	p. 9
Liturgical Readings	p. 10
Tradition	p. 11
The Collection of Writings	p. 13
Christian Scriptures	p. 14
At the Turn of the First Century	p. 15
Papias and Polycarp	p. 18
Closed Collections	p. 21
Two Tendencies and a Two-Part Canon	p. 22
Irenaeus of Lyons	p. 23
The Apocryphal Literature	p. 26
The Protogospel of James	p. 28
Apocryphal Apocalypses	p. 29
Pauline Apocrypha	p. 30
Besides the Two-Stage Movement	p. 31
Canonization	p. 32
The Consensus	p. 36
Select Bibliography	p. 39
Historical-Critical Methodology	p. 41
The New Testament in a Historical Context	p. 42
The Synoptics	p. 45
The Historical Jesus	p. 47
Life of Jesus Research	p. 48
Markan Priority	p. 50
The Two-Source Theory	p. 51
The Demise of Life of Jesus Research	p. 54
Modern Critical Methodology	p. 56
Criticism Outside of Germany	p. 56
The New Testament Environment	p. 59
Form and Redaction Criticism	p. 62
The Reaction	p. 64
Select Bibliography	p. 69
Textual Criticism	p. 75
An Introduction to the Method	p. 75
Some Modern Examples	p. 77
The Use of Textual Criticism in New Testament Studies	p. 80
The Material	p. 80
The Papyri	p. 80
The Majuscules	p. 82
The Minuscules	p. 84
The Lectionaries	p. 85
The Versions	p. 86
The Syriac Versions	p. 87
The Latin Versions	p. 88
The Latin Vulgate	p. 88
The Coptic Versions	p. 89
The Fathers	p. 90
The Generalogical Method	p. 91
Reading the Manuscripts	p. 93
Characteristics of the Manuscripts	p. 93
Text Types	p. 94
The Manuscript Tradition	p. 96
Judging the Readings	p. 97
Deviational Probability	p. 98
"The Intelligent Scribe"	p. 101
Some Difficult Cases	p. 102
Editing the New Testament	p. 104
An Exercise in Textual Criticism	p. 108
The Message of the Baptist	p. 108
The Stilling of the Storm	p. 110
Select Bibliography	p. 113
Source Criticism	p. 115
An Introduction to the Method	p. 115
Literary Criticism	p. 116
A Renewal of Interest	p. 118
The Method	p. 120
The Criteria	p. 123
The Use of Source Criticism in New Testament Studies	p. 126
The Synoptics	p. 126
The Synoptic Fact	p. 126
The Synoptic Problem	p. 128
The Sayings Source	p. 130
Additional Sources	p. 133
Acts	p. 135
Which Sources?	p. 136
The Letters	p. 139
Borrowed Material	p. 139
Interpolations and Conflations	p. 140
Problems of Literary Dependence	p. 142
The Johannine Corpus	p. 143
The Gospel	p. 144
The Epistles	p. 146
Revelation	p. 147
An Exercise in Source Criticism	p. 148
The Message of the Baptist	p. 148
The Stilling of the Storm	p. 151
Select Bibliography	p. 154
Form Criticism	p. 156
An Introduction to the Method	p. 156
Reading the Newspaper	p. 158
The Terminology	p. 161
The Life Situation	p. 163
Transmission and Preservation	p. 166
The Author's Purpose	p. 169
The Use of Form Criticism in New Testament Studies	p. 170
The Synoptics	p. 172
Karl Ludwig Schmidt	p. 172
Martin Dibelius	p. 173
Rudolf Bultmann	p. 175
Vincent Taylor	p. 176
Miracle Stories	p. 177
Other Literary Types	p. 179
"The Historical Jesus"	p. 181
The Johannine Corpus	p. 182
Revelation	p. 184
The Epistles and the Acts of the Apostles	p. 186
An Exercise in Form Criticism	p. 189
The Message of the Baptist	p. 189
The Stilling of the Storm	p. 192
Select Bibliography	p. 194
Redaction Criticism	p. 196
An Introduction to the Method	p. 196
The Reaction to Form Criticism	p. 196
Back to the Newspaper	p. 199
The Methodology	p. 203
The Use of Redaction Criticism in New Testament Studies	p. 207
The Synoptics	p. 208
Luke	p. 210
Matthew	p. 211
Further use of the Methodology	p. 213
The Acts of the Apostles	p. 214
The Letters	p. 216
The Johannine Corpus	p. 218
An Exercise in Redaction Criticism	p. 221
The Message of the Baptist	p. 221
The Stilling of the Storm	p. 223
Select Bibliography	p. 229
Structural Analysis	p. 231
An Introduction to the Method	p. 231
A Reaction	p. 233
Ferdinand de Saussure	p. 233
Meaning	p. 235
The Propprian Model of Syntagmatic Analysis	p. 236
A. J. Greimas	p. 238
Claude Bremond	p. 241
The Levi-Straussian Model of Paradigmatic Analysis	p. 242
Myth	p. 243
The Greimasian Model of "Semantic" Analysis	p. 245
Narrative Grammar	p. 245
The Semiotic Square	p. 247
The Model of Interrelation	p. 248
Semiotics	p. 251
The Narrative Program	p. 252
The Subject	p. 254
The Use of Structural Analysis in New Testament Studies	p. 255
The Text	p. 256
Language	p. 259
Narrative	p. 260
Genre	p. 262
An Exercise in Structural Analysis	p. 264
The Mysterious Host	p. 264
Select Bibliography	p. 269
Exegesis and the Church	p. 272
Kerygma et Ecclesia	p. 278
The New Testament as the Church's Book	p. 279
New Testament Exegesis and the Church	p. 281
New Testament Exegesis and Dogmatic Theology	p. 287
A Fivefold Task	p. 291
New Testament Exegesis and the Magisterium	p. 299
Exegesis and Evangelization	p. 302
Proclamation	p. 302
Exegesis and Catechesis	p. 306
Exegesis and Prayer	p. 311
Select Bibliography	p. 315
Inspiration	p. 317
The New Testament Tradition	p. 319
The Fathers of the Church	p. 326
God, the Author of the Scriptures	p. 328
Theological Discussion	p. 331
The Nineteenth Century	p. 334
The Magisterium	p. 340
The Notion of Biblical Inspiration	p. 343
Select Bibliography	p. 354
Epilogue: Rome and the Critical Study of the New Testament	p. 356
Biblical Studies Renewed	p. 358
The Modernist Crisis	p. 361
A Thrust Renewed	p. 370
A New Crisis	p. 374
The Crisis Resolved	p. 377
Select Bibliography	p. 385
Texts and Tools for New Testament Study	p. 387
Bibliographic Tools	p. 387
General Surveys	p. 387
Special Bibliographies	p. 388
Current Bibliography	p. 389
New Testament Texts	p. 390
The New Testament in English	p. 391
Synopses	p. 392
Greek	p. 392
English	p. 393
Other Synoptic Tools	p. 394
Concordances	p. 394
Greek	p. 394
English	p. 395
Other Comparative Tools	p. 396
Lexicons and Dictionaries	p. 396
Lexicons	p. 396
Dictionaries	p. 397
Grammars	p. 399
Introductions to the New Testament	p. 400
The New Testament Context	p. 401
History, Geography, Topography	p. 401
The Social and Ideological Context	p. 402
The Major Series of New Testament Commentaries in English	p. 404
The Principal Journals	p. 406
A Glossary of Terms	p. 409
Index of Persons	p. 431
Index of Scriptural References	p. 437
Index of Subjects	p. 444
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