The Study of the New Testament : : A Comprehensive Introduction / / Antonio Piñero [and three others].
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 pre...
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Superior document: | Tools for Biblical Study Series ; Volume 3 |
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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 |
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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.