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An investigation into to what extent textual variants in the New Testament were caused by dogmatic interference with the text.

Adams applies ancient and modern genre theory to provide an insightful reading of the composition and purpose of the Acts of the Apostles, and to propose that it is a work of collected biography, rather than history. This nuanced study will interest those studying the New Testament and ancient literature.

Interprets the often overlooked metaphor of apostles as divinely appointed administrators (oikonomoi) and assesses the complicated and multifaceted nature of authority in Paul. This study will appeal to academic researchers and graduate students of New Testament studies, Pauline theology and those interested in the Graeco-Roman context of early Christianity.

1 John is commonly understood to contain no reference to Jesus's resurrection. Jensen refutes this in a stimulating and original reading of the whole letter, which will be of use to scholars and advanced students of New Testament studies, Johannine theology and Jewish history.

The Gospel of Thomas is the most well-known and controversial extra-canonical gospel, much discussed in scholarly, student and popular circles. This book answers important questions about the origins of this gospel, exploring whether it was written in Aramaic or if it was influenced by the canonical gospels.

Many interpreters of the Fourth Gospel detect allusions to biblical texts about marriage, but none offers a comprehensive analysis of these proposed allusions or a convincing explanation for their presence. In this 2006 book McWhirter argues that John alludes to such texts to develop a metaphor for Jesus and his relationship with his followers.

For nearly nineteen hundred years, few have questioned the single authorship of Luke and Acts. Applying a statistical analysis of both works that is unique to biblical scholarship, this study reveals significant stylistic differences between the two books, providing a reassessment of the evidence for unitary authorship.

Pauline Scholarship has typically interpreted 2 Corinthians as a later editorial composite of several letters. Fredrick Long presents the case for its unity, based on a comprehensive survey and rigorous genre analysis of ancient forensic discourse. His study will be of relevance to classicists and New Testament scholars alike.

A careful examination of the way Paul and other ancient authors handled the wording of their explicit quotations.

This book surveys the social values of the Roman world with a special focus on stratification and honour-seeking. The Roman colony at Philippi is used to demonstrate how entrenched those values were in Philippian society. The books of Acts and Philippians are also examined in view of these social values.

This ground breaking analysis cuts to the heart of the debate surrounding the Thessalonian Epistles. Colin Nicholl examines the situations giving rise to each Letter with a view to determining how the two relate historically. His book presents a compelling hypothesis of Thessalonians.

Much recent scholarship has focused on Paul's insistence on Gentile membership of the people of God equally with Jews. This book contributes to the continuing reassessment of Christian and Jewish self-understanding during the latter decades of the first century and reveals how a distinctively Jewish world view underlies Ephesians 2.

A study of the communal worship and private prayers of the early Christian Church, in particular the intercessory prayer passages in Paul's seven epistles. Professor Wiles is concerned to discover what these prayers reveal about Paul's ministry and his apostolic strategy.

This study discusses the relationship between the epistles of Paul and classical rhetoric by focusing on recent studies of Galatians. It concludes that Paul did not write according to the conventions of oratory and that therefore the ancient handbooks can contribute little to the interpretation of his epistles.

In this 2001 text, Daniel Gurtner examines the meaning of the rending of the veil in Matthew 27:51a by considering the functions of the veil in the Old Testament and its symbolism in ancient Judaism. He concludes that the rending of the veil is an apocalyptic assertion like the opening of heaven.

Initially, Paul's words to the Corinthians about being the body of Christ seem simple and straightforward. However, the passage raises several critical questions which point to its deeper implication. Michelle Lee examines Paul's instructions in 1 Corinthians 12-14 against the backdrop of Hellenistic moral philosophy, and especially Stoicism.

A comprehensive explanation of Philippians as a letter written to call the Christians to unity under economic suffering. The book uses archaeology and other methods to build a detailed picture of the types of people likely to have been in Philippi and in the Christian community there.

In this rhetorical-critical study Holloway puts Paul's letter in the context of ancient theories and literary practices of 'consolation' and argues that Paul wrote to the Philippians in order to console them.

Matthew's Jesus is typically described as the humble messiah. This book argues that this is only half the story. Matthew's theologically rich quotation of Isaiah 42.1-4 underscores the fact that, manifest in Jesus' message, is the justice that was thought to accompany the arrival of the kingdom of God.

How does Luke's portrait of the outsider help in exploring the theology and historiography of Acts? Osvaldo Padilla takes an intriguing approach by concentrating on the direct speeches of outsiders, and provides an insightful analysis that will prove invaluable to scholars and students of biblical and early Christian studies.

This book examines the question of how God might be thought to relate to the realm of human history. It explores this partly through a reading of a particular New Testament text, the Book of Revelation, and partly through analysing the work of two theologians, Jurgen Moltmann and Wolfhart Pannenberg.

This study focuses on the way the Letter to the Hebrews explains the Christian doctrine of salvation by means of sacrificial symbols drawn from the Old Testament. Theories about the nature of sacrifice are taken from the work of social anthropologists to show the underlying meaning of these symbols.

This examination of the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Letters of Paul finds that, in both these bodies of literature, religious self-understanding is expressed in terms of the concept of purity so important to primitive religion and earlier Judaism. Dr Newton contradicts the view held by most scholars that the traditional Jewish attitude to purity had no place in Christianity.

It has often been suggested that Luke's two volumes were written as an apology for Christianity, to demonstrate to the Roman authorities that the new faith was not a dangerous and subversive innovation. From an investigation of Luke - Acts, particularly the trials of Jesus and Paul.

The theme of law in Luke's Gospel has rarely been discussed, and then only tangentially in studies concerned with recovering Jesus' view of the law. The evidence of Acts has received considerably more attention, but almost always in the context of a comparison with Paul's view of the law or a reconstruction of the historical events which lie behind the narrative of Acts.

A fresh approach to the attitude of Jesus to the Mosaic Law, Dr Banks' book is concerned centrally with a detailed exegesis of the texts in the first three Gospels relevant to the ethical teaching and practice of Jesus as it related to Jewish Law.

A study of the authenticity and interpretation of the last twelve verses of St Mark's Gospel, which have been omitted or queried in most modern translations. Professor Farmer traces the history of the text tradition, reviews the textual and patristic evidence and examines the most plausible solutions that have been canvassed.

Dr Pryke tests syntactically unusual features from the text of St Mark's Gospel to see if they are mainly source material or redactional. Appendixes include further analyse and a complete redactional Greek text. Dr Pryke's methods and conclusions will be of great interest to those concerned with linguistic studies of New Testament texts.

This book examines the historical data related to the suffering imposed on Christians and evaluates Matthew's portrayal of the persecutions.

A comprehensive historical overview of the 'Son of Man' debate, tracing its development from the patristic period to the late twentieth century. It evaluates the research on the origin and meaning of the expression, used in the Gospels almost exclusively by Jesus, and summarizes the state of the debate.