A Beginner's Guide to New Testament Studies: Understanding Key Debates
A Beginner's Guide to New Testament Studies: Understanding Key Debates

A Beginner's Guide to New Testament Studies: Understanding Key Debates

by Nijay K. Gupta

Pages 208
Publisher Baker Academic
Published 2020
ISBN-13 9780801097577
This accessible and balanced introduction helps readers sort out key views on the most important debated issues in New Testament studies. Well-known New Testament scholar Nijay Gupta fairly presents the spectrum of viewpoints on thirteen topics and offers reflections on why scholars disagree on these matters. Written to be accessible to students and readers without advanced training in New Testament studies, this book will serve as an excellent supplementary text for New Testament introduction courses.

  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • 1. The Synoptic Problem
  • 2. The Historical Jesus
  • 3. The Fourth Gospel and History
  • 4. Jesus and Paul
  • 5. Paul's Theological Perspective
  • 6. Paul and the Jewish Law
  • 7. Interpreting the Book of Revelation
  • 8. Pseudonymity and the New Testament Letters
  • 9. The New Testament and the Roman Empire
  • 10. Women in Leadership in the New Testament 
  • 11. Justification by Faith and Judgment according to Works
  • 12. The Old Testament in the New Testament
  • 13. The Application and Use of Scripture
  • Indexes

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