The New Testament: A Very Short Introduction - Brossura

Johnson, Luke Timothy

 
9780199735709: The New Testament: A Very Short Introduction
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ISBN 10: 0199735700 ISBN 13: 9780199735709
Casa editrice: OUP USA, 2010

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As part of the Christian Bible, the New Testament is at once widely influential and (especially among the young and the educated) increasingly unknown. Those who want to know the basics can find in this introduction the sort of information that locates these ancient writings in their historical and literary context. Those who want to learn why these compositions have had such impact can find here an appreciation for the religious experiences of the first Christians that forced them to reinterpret their Jewish and Greek heritage and reshape their symbolic world. In addition to providing the broad conceptual and factual framework for the New Testament --- including the process by which distinct compositions became a sacred book --- this introduction provides as well a more detailed examination of specific compositions that have had particularly strong influence, including Paul's letters to the Corinthians and Romans, the four Gospels, and the Book of Revelation.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Luke Timothy Johnson, a former Benedictine monk, received his Ph.D. in the New Testament from Yale in 1976. He has taught at Yale Divinity School and Indiana University, and is currently the Robert W. Woodruff Distinguished Professor of New Testament and Christian Origins at the Candler School of Theology, Emory University.

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Editore
OUP USA
Data di pubblicazione
2010
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0199735700
ISBN 13 
9780199735709
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Copertina flessibile
Numero di pagine
160
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ISBN 10:  0195308387 ISBN 13:  9780195308389
Casa editrice: Oxford University Press, 2010
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