The Study of the New Testament : : A Comprehensive Introduction /

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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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.
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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.

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