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The story of the making of the New Testament is one in which scrolls bumped across cobbled Roman roads and pitched through rolling Mediterranean seas, finally finding their destinations in stuffy, dimly lit Christian house churches in Corinth or Colossae. There they were read aloud and reread, handled and copied, forwarded and collected, studied and treasured. And eventually they were brought together to make up our New Testament. This revised and expanded edition of The Making of the New Testament is a textbook introduction to the origin, collection, copying and canonizing of the New Testament documents. Like shrewd detectives reading subtle whispers of evidence, biblical scholars have studied the trail of clues and pieced together the story of these books. Arthur Patzia tells the story, answering our many questions:
- How were books and documents produced in the first century?
- What motivated the early Christians to commit teaching and narrative and vision to papyrus?
- How were the stories and sayings of Jesus circulated, handed down and shaped into Gospels?
- What do we know about ancient letter writing, secretaries and "copy shops"?
- Why were four Gospels included instead of just one?
- How were Paul's letters, sent here and there, gathered into a single collection?
- Who decided--and by what criteria--which documents would be included in the New Testament?
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About the Author
Arthur G. Patzia is senior professor of New Testament at Fuller Theological Seminary and was formerly director of Fuller Northern California. He is the author of The Emergence of the Church (IVP Academic) and Ephesians, Colossians, Philemon in the New International Biblical Commentary series (Hendrickson). He is also coauthor of the Pocket Dictionary of Biblical Studies (IVP Academic).
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This accessible introduction to the making of Christian Scripture, written by a professor of New Testament at Fuller Theological Seminary, synthesizes a wide range of scholarly research in a readily understandable form. Patzia begins with an introduction to the literary world of the New Testament, then devotes sections to the Gospels, the Pauline literature, and other New Testament material, before turning in some detail to specifically textual issues. In the process, he gives a historically informed overview of critical methods of biblical scholarship that have developed in the past 100 years. The sections on formation of the canon, textual transmission, and textual criticism will be of particular value to serious students (in or out of formal academic settings) who seek a critically informed encounter with Christian Scripture. Steve Schroeder
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- PublisherIVP Academic
- Publication date2011
- ISBN 10 0830827218
- ISBN 13 9780830827213
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number2
- Number of pages304
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