History, literature & society in the book of Acts, c.1-2

These essays use an interdisciplinary approach for recent Book of Acts scholarship. Insights from the social sciences, narratological studies, Greek and Roman rhetoric and history, and classics, se…

The New Testament story, c.1-2

This informative, clearly written book introduces the New Testament in two main ways: it explain where the New Testament came from and it examines the New Testament writings themselves. The author …

New Testament history: a narrative

Beginning with the introduction which eschews the usual John-vs.-the-Synoptics categorization of the Gospels in favor of a more nuanced approach, in which Luke's Acts is the historical sore thumb a…

Women in the ministry of Jesus, c.1-2

Women in the ministry of Jesus is a study both of Jesus' attitudes towards women as reflected in his words and deeds, and of the women who were part of his ministry, or who interacted with him acco…

What's in the word: rethinking the socio-rhetorical character...

Written in clear and at times colorful, prose, the author's of this book explains how the recognition of the oral and socio rethorical character of the New Testament and its environmental necessita…

A week in the life of Corinth

Ben Witherington III attempts to reenchant our reading of Paul in this creative reconstruction of ancient Corinth. Following a fictitious Corinthian man named Nicanor through an eventful week of bu…

Making a meal of it: rethinking the theology of the Lord's supper

Neither of celebration of Passover nor the celebration of early Jewish communal meals nor the celebratrion of the Last Supper could by any stretch of the imagination be called entrance rituals, unl…

Jesus the sage: the pilgrimage of the wisdom, c. 1-2

This book is yet another example of the fact that nor many people have heeded the sagacious warning of the final redactor of Ecclesiates about the production of books. To those whose expertise is i…

The poetry of piety: an annotated anthology.., c.1-3

Edition

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ISBN/ISSN

0-8010-2286.X

Collation

175p.; 23 cm.

Series Title

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Call Number

821.008 WIT p.1-3

New Testament history: a narrative account, c.1-5

At first blust it might seem perfectly obvious what New Testament history is and what the contents of a book about New Testament history would contain. On closer impection this is not the case. Are…