Exploring the New Testament, Volume 2: A Guide to the Letters Revelation

This clearly written and scholarly enriched introduction to the New Testament Letters and Apocalypse is a companion volume to Exploring the New Testament, Volume One: A Guide to the Apostles & Acts. In addition to making up-to-date New Testament scholarship accessible to students, I. Howard Marshall, Stephen Travis and Ian Paul fill this volume with helpful classroom features: questions and issues for discussion, suggestions for student research and debate, essay topics at an introductory and intermediate level, and recommendations for further reading and research. Particularly aimed at students of theology, Exploring the New Testament: A Guide to the Letters & Revelation introduces students to

• Greco-Roman background
• ancient letter writing
• Paul's life, mission and theology
• issues of authorship, date and setting
• reading and interpreting the New Testament Letters and Revelation
• content and major themes of each of the New Testament Letters and Revelation
• understanding the meaning of each of these documents for today

Professors and students will warm to this well-designed and thoroughly informed introduction to the New Testament.

I. Howard Marshall (1934-2015) was a world-renowned New Testament scholar and the author or editor of at least thirty-eight books and more than 120 essays and articles. He taught New Testament at the University of Aberdeen for thirty-five years and was a professor emeritus for sixteen years. Among his numerous publications on the New Testament are his commentaries on the Gospel of Luke, Acts, 1-2 Thessalonians, the Pastoral Epistles and 1 Peter and 1-3 John. He is coauthor of Exploring the New Testament: A Guide to the Letters and Revelation and coeditor of the New International Greek Testament Commentary series, as well as the author of the series' volume on Luke. He has also authored New Testament Theology: Many Witnesses, One Gospel. Marshall was an evangelical Methodist who was born and lived most of his life in Scotland. He received a PhD from the University of Aberdeen and a DD from Asbury Theological Seminary.