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Encounter with the New Testament: An Interdisciplinary Approach Paperback – Illustrated, July 1, 2009

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An exemplary text, Russell Pregeant's Engaging the New Testament (1995) has provided a rich interdisciplinary New Testament introduction for upperlevel and graduate students, incorporating a wide range of methodsliterary, historical, psychological, theological, and socialscientific, and critically perceptive introductions to each of the New Testament writings.

Encounter with the New Testament adapts and abridges the best features of that textbook for beginning undergraduate students surveying approaches to biblical studies, and discussing historical and cultural backgrounds, the historical Jesus, and the rise of the resurrection faith with attention to extracanonical materials. The textbook includes charts, maps, illustrations, reading suggestions, and more.

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    Fortress Press
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    July 1, 2009
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    7.5 x 0.5 x 9.25 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    0800663489
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    978-0800663483
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Russell Pregeant is Professor of Religion and Chaplain at Curry College, Milton, Massachusetts, and Lecturer in New Testament at Andover Newton Theological School. He is author of several books, including the Fortress textbook Engaging the New Testament (1995,) and Knowing Truth, Doing Good: Engaging New Testament Ethics.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Fortress Press (July 1, 2009)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 400 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0800663489
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0800663483
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.83 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.5 x 0.5 x 9.25 inches
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Russell Pregeant is a retired professor of religion and an ordained minister in the United Methodist Church. He taught at Curry College in Milton, Massachusetts for many years, where he also served as Chaplain. In addition, he was frequently Visiting Professor in New Testament at Andover Newton Theological School. Prior to his teaching career, he was Associate Pastor at Rayne Memorial United Methodist Church in New Orleans. His main fields of interest are New Testament theology and ethics, religion and politics, and process theology. A native of south Louisiana, he enjoys cooking Cajun and Creole dishes such as gumbo, crawfish or shrimp etouffee, jambalaya, and fish courtbouillon. As a boy, he became enamored with jazz by listening on the radio late at night to the New Orleans Jazz Club, and he likes to compare theological thinking, biblical interpretation, preaching, and the process of passing on religious tradition to the improvisation involved in both jazz and cooking. He now resides in Clayton, Georgia, with his wife, who is also an ordained minister the the UMC.

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Great book. It has opened my eyes with a lot of clarity on some scriptures that I hadn't really and fully understood in the past.
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Joel L. Watts
3.0 out of 5 stars A Brief Encounter
Reviewed in the United States on September 15, 2009
Rarely ever do I have to make myself read a book related to the bible - yet, for the first section, I had to constantly force myself to pick it up, plow through it, and see if it would get any better. Fortunately, it did. The book is divided into four parts, one dealing with historical (higher) criticism of the New Testament in which the author takes us through the various accounts of how the Jesus Tradition expanded, as well as methods of that expansion. The remaining three deal with the Gospels-Acts, the Undisputed Letters of Paul, the Disputed Letters of Paul, and the General Letters.

Pregeant promises an interdisciplinary approach to biblical interpretation, and delivers it, except during the first section of the book. He is able to properly place such interpretations as feminist, Freudian, Jungian, the Existentialist interpretation popularized by Bultmann, as well as literary approaches, liberation theology, and narrative criticism. In discussing the various books which serve to make up the New Testament, the author uses the different interpretative methods at different times.

In presenting the New Testament books, the author presents points to look for in the book, reading summaries for each section and then a summary. From there, he employees various interpretive methods as mentioned above. This is a fault of the book. While this book is intended as a entry level device, the author has so broadened the field that he is able to only use just a few methods at a time, and they are random, as if the author is using certain methods to get certain points across. The author, however, does not hesitate in tackling the controversial points of each books, such as the charge of antisemitism found so easily in Matthew, or Paul's approaches to homosexuality and women and associating the proper methods with these issues.

While the author is squarely centered in historical criticism, and relies on Bultmann's method as his primary tool, once you move past the first section, the remainder of the book should be well received by all students of the New Testament, if for nothing else, in examining how others view, or attempt to answer, the New Testament. I would recommend this book for those who are unfamiliar with different methods of interpretations.
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