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.