The Study of the New Testament : : A Comprehensive Introduction / / Antonio Piñero [and three others].

• Superior document: Tools for Biblical Study Series ; Volume 3
• VerfasserIn: Piñero, Antonio,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiderdorp, The Netherlands : : Deo Publishing,, 2003.; ©1995
• Year of Publication: 2003
• Edition: First edition.
• Language: English
• Series: Tools for biblical study ; Volume 3.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

The most thorough grounding available in the various disciplines of NT study, this is an invaluable tool for students, scholars and other serious readers of the earliest Christian writings. With a full survey of scholarship on each topic, in 600 packed pages the volume gives a reliable, in-depth presentation of: the history of interpretation – the NT canon – text criticism – the language of the NT – the historical and literary context – methods and approaches.

Table of Contents

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Publisher's Preface to the English edition -- Abbreviations -- INTRODUCTION -- Ancient languages and the study of the New Testament -- Biblical Philology and Theology -- CHAPTER 1 THE HISTORY OF NEW TESTAMENT INTERPRETATION -- From the Beginnings to the Modern Period -- The early days of New Testament interpretation -- Interpretation in the post-apostolic period -- The school of Alexandria and Antioch, face to face -- The fifth century -- From the Middle Ages to the Renaissance -- The Reformation -- Beyond the Reformation: scholasticism, pietism and rationalism -- The beginnings of textual criticism and religious criticism -- The Modern Period -- Historical criticism -- The critical study of the Gospels -- The authorship of the books of the New Testament -- The search for the Jesus of history -- Biblical theology and exegesis in historicist perspective -- The Tübingen School -- Reaction to the Tübingen School: the consolidation of the historical-critical method -- Text criticism of the New Testament -- The history of the canon -- Predecessors of the history of religions school -- The language of the New Testament and its linguistic environment -- The influence of popular hellenistic religion on the New Testament -- Radical historical criticism -- Progress in textual and literary criticism in the twentieth century -- Form criticism -- Redaction criticism -- Rabbinic literature -- Targum and Midrash -- Qumran -- Nag Hammadi -- Old Testament Apocrypha -- Mandaean and Iranian Texts -- Lexicography -- Structuralism and the New Testament: from formalist analysis to semiotics -- Sociology and the New Testament -- New horizons -- CHAPTER 2 THE STUDY OF THE TEXT OF THE NEW TESTAMENT -- The Canon of the New Testatnent.

The formation of the canon: "normative" authorities and the early Church -- The list or canon -- The beginnings of the criticism of the canon -- Catholic and Protestant attitudes to the "closing" of the canon -- Text Criticistn and the History of the New Testatnent Text -- The objectives of textual criticism. The state of research -- Classification of the manuscripts -- The witnesses to the New Testament text -- Different text types -- (a) The Alexandrian type -- (b) The Western type -- (c) The Koiné or Byzantine (or Syrian) type -- (d) The "Caesarean" type -- The ancient versions -- 1. The Syriac versions -- (a) Tatian's Diatessaron and the Old Syriac -- (b) The Peshitta (syr) -- (c) The Philonexian Syriac version (sy) -- (d) The Harklean Syriac version (sy) -- (e) The Syro-Palestinian version (syr) -- Limitations of the Syriac versions -- 2. The Latin versions -- (a) The Old Latin (Vetus latina) -- (b) The Vulgate -- 3. The Coptic versions -- 4. Other versions -- Scripture quoted by the Church Fathers -- Methodological principles of text criticism -- Text-critical research, present and future -- Current directions in New Testament textual criticism -- Appendix: Printed editions of the New Testament -- CHAPTER 3 THE LANGUAGE OF THE NEW TESTAMENT -- A. The Languages Spoken in Palestine at the Time of Jesus -- 1. Aramaic -- Aramaisms and "translation Greek" or "judeo-Greek -- Ipsissima verba et facta Jesu -- (a) The criterion of dissimilarity or discontinuity -- (b) The criterion of multiple attestation -- (c) The criterion of coherence or continuity -- (d) The criteria of language and context -- 2. Hebrew -- Hebraists and purists -- 3. Greek -- 4. Latin -- B. Koiné and the New Testament -- 1. The name and concept of koiné -- 2. The origin of koiné -- 3. Defining periods of koiné -- 4. Distinctive features of koiné.

(a) Phonology / phonetics and prosody -- Punctuation -- Accentuation -- (b) Morphology -- (c) Syntax -- α) Case syntax -- β) Verbal syntax -- Tenses -- The perfect -- The future -- Moods -- The optative -- Voices -- Active voice and middle voice -- The nominal forms of the verb -- The participle -- The infinitive -- Verbal aspect -- Aspect and its definition -- Factors affecting aspect -- γ) Sentence syntax -- δ) Prepositions and particles -- C. Other Linguistic Influences -- 1. NT Greek and Semitisms -- 2. NT Greek and Septuagintalisms -- 3. NT Greek, Latinisms and other linguistic borrowings -- 4. The nature of NT Greek -- 5. The study of the language of the New Testament in the light of current linguistics -- CHAPTER 4 THE HISTORICAL-LITERARY CONTEXT (Study of the substratum of the New Testament) -- 1. The New Testament World -- 2. Foreign Influences: Indo-Iranian Region -- 3. The Heritage of the Hebrew Bible -- The NT use of the Old Testament. the "Testimonia -- The "Testimonia" as a source of inspiration for the NT -- (a) Combined (erroneously?) quotations from the OT -- (b) The "formula" quotations in Matthew -- (c) Quotations diverging from the basic text (LXX/MT / others) -- (d) Composite quotations -- 4. The New Testament and Qumran Literature -- Identifying the Qumran sect -- The relationship between Qumran and the NT -- (a) John the Baptist -- (b) Jesus -- (c) The structure of the community -- (d) The Pauline corpus -- (e) Johannine ideology -- (f) The Epistle to the Hebrews -- (g) NT fragments at Qumran? -- Tools for the study of Qumran literature -- 5. Judeo-Hellenistic Literature -- The Old Testament pseudepigrapha -- Pseudonymous literature -- Date of composition -- The importance of the intertestamental literature -- The principal theologoumena of apocryphal literature -- (a) The transcendent God -- (b) The loving and merciful God.

(c) The just or righteous God -- (d) Angelology -- (e) Dualism, pessimism -- (f) The kingdom of God, eschatology and messianism -- Apocalyptic elements in the NT -- 6. Philo of Alexandria and Flavius Josephus -- Philo -- Flavius Josephus -- 7. The New Testament and Rabbinie Literature -- Midrash, Targum, Mishnah and Talmud -- History of the use of this corpus for the understanding of the NT -- Guidelines for NT study in the light of rabbinic literature -- Targum, Derash and the New Testament -- The use of the targumim -- Derashic exegesis -- Objectives of derashic exegesis -- Principles of derashic exegesis -- Procedures of derashic exegesis -- Literary forms -- Characteristics of derashic exegesis in the NT -- Principal studies of "derashic" techniques and the NT -- An example of targumic method applied to the NT -- Examples of the NT writers' use of the derashic method -- 8. Gnosis, Gnosticism and the New Testament -- Terminology -- General features of gnosis -- Gnostic theology -- Origin of gnostic religiosity -- Impulses and motives for the constitution of gnosis as a system -- Gnosis and the New Testament -- 9. The New Testament and Hellenistic Culture -- The universalist tendency -- Use of categories proper to hellenism -- Jesus as Kyrios (ϰύριoς) -- Jesus as Saviour (σωτήρ) -- Jesus as Son of God (υἱὸς ϑɛoῦ) -- Jesus as the Logos made manifest (λόγος) -- Spirit (pneuma) and the concept of prophecy -- Mystical life -- Baptism -- Eucharist -- Church order -- Popular hellenistic philosophy and Christian ethics -- CHAPTER 5 METHODS AND APPROACHES IN NEW TESTAMENT STUDY: DIACHRONIC AND SYNCHRONIC -- I. DIACHRONIC STUDY OF THE NEW TESTAMENT -- 1. The New Testament in the Framework of the History of Religions (Religionsgeschichte) -- 2. Historical-critical Methods -- Scholarly attitudes prior to historical criticism.

Objective of historical-critical methods -- Literary Criticism/ Source Criticism -- The concept of literary criticism -- The development of literary criticism in the biblical field -- The literary genres of the NT -- The "Gospel" genre -- Letters/ Epistles -- Historical monographs -- Apocalypse -- The fields of NT literary criticism -- (A) Literary criticism between the Gospels -- (a) Two or more traditions of the same event or logion -- (1) Internal witnesses -- (2) External witnesses -- (b) Single traditions -- The two-source theory -- The Q source -- (B) Literary criticism outside the Gospels -- (a) Literary relationships between different writings -- 2 Peter-Jude -- Ephesians-Colossians -- (b) Literary relationships within a single writing -- Literary criticism as history of literature -- Form History/ Form Criticism -- Concept -- Genre, form, and formula -- Presuppositions of form criticism -- Methodological procedure in form criticism -- (a) Determination of the literary genres -- (b) Analysis of genres -- (c) History of each genre -- (d) Determination of the "Sitz im Leben" or life setting -- (e) Reconstruction of the history of the tradition -- History of research -- Reaction to the form-critical method -- Redaction History/ Redaction Criticism -- Concept -- The genesis of redaction history -- The goal of redaction history -- The methodology of redaction criticism -- A brief history of redaction criticism of the Gospels and Acts -- Predecessors -- The first Gospel -- The Gospel of Mark -- The Gospel of Luke -- The Acts of the Apostles -- The synoptics as a whole -- 3. Sociological Methods and the New Testament -- Antecedents of the sociological method in the study of the NT -- Interest and difficulties of the sociological approach -- History and sociology -- Different types of sociological exegesis -- (a) Sociological exegesis.

(b) Socio-historical exegesis.