Anatomy of the New Testament: A Guide to Its Structure and Meaning

This broadly adopted textbook weds literary and historical approaches to focus on the New Testaments structure and meaning. Anatomy of the New Testament is systematic, critical, and reliable in its scope and content.

This Seventh Edition has been revised throughout to take account of current trends in scholarship and to discuss important interpretative issues, such as the Gospel of Thomas. Each chapter includes two new features: Have You Learned It? offering questions for analysis and synthesis What Do They Mean? presenting definitions of key terms to enhance student comprehension and critical thinkingThe text is augmented by numerous sidebars to stimulate discussion of matters Behind, Within, and Beyond the New Testament.

Other new features include: a more readable two-column format fresh, up-to-date maps nearly 100 new images and illustrations in black and white and color new charts and diagrams that facilitate deeper learning thoroughly updated bibliographies

Robert A. Spivey is Professor Emeritus, Florida State University.

D. Moody Smith is George Washington Ivey Professor Emeritus of New Testament at The Divinity School, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina.

C. Clifton Black, the author of the Introduction, Commentary, and Reflections on the First, Second, and Third Letters of John, is Otto A. Piper Professor of Biblical Theology at Princeton Theological Seminary. His other works include The Disciples According to Mark: Markan Redaction in Current Debate and Mark: Images of an Apostolic Interpreter. He is also the co-editor of Exploring the Gospel of John in Honor of D. Moody Smith and a founding editor of the New Testament Library.