The Making of the New Testament DocumentsDo we "really" know who wrote the New Testament documents? Do we really know "when" they were written? Scholars have long debated these fundamental questions. This volume identifies and investigates literary traditions and their implications for the authorship and dating of the Gospels and the letters of the New Testament. Departing from past scholarship, E. Earle Ellis argues that the Gospels and the letters are products of the corporate authorship of four allied apostolic missions and not just the creation of individual authors. The analysis of literary traditions also has implications for the dating of New Testament documents. Providing a critique of the current critical orthodoxy with respect to the dating of New Testament documents, Ellis weighs the patristic traditions more heavily and more critically than has been done in the past. Ellis's new reconstruction of the origin of the New Testament documents provides better answers than have been previously proposed to a number of critical questions. Ellis provides a comprehensive historical reconstruction of the process by which the gospel message became the Gospel books. His arguments, if persuasive, will require a reassessment of the history of early Christianity. Please note that "The Making of the New Testament Documents" was previously published by Brill in hardback, ISBN 90 04 11332 0 (no longer available). |
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Contents
From Traditions to the New Testament | 1 |
The Making of the New Testament Letters | 49 |
Traditions in the Pauline Letters | 69 |
Traditions in Hebrews James and Jude | 117 |
Traditions of the Johannine Mission | 143 |
Circle | 150 |
Traditions in First John | 183 |
Traditions Introduced by Formulas | 189 |
The Significance of Preformed Traditions for | 320 |
Conclusion | 329 |
The Date and Provenance of Marks Gospel | 357 |
Peters Initial Journey to Rome | 366 |
The Origin and Making of LukeActs | 377 |
Authorship | 397 |
Traditions in the Pastoral Epistles | 406 |
3435 | 426 |
Traditions in Revelation | 208 |
Conclusion | 233 |
The Relationship of the Four Apostolic Missions | 307 |
3435 A Preformed Tradition | 433 |
Indexes | 447 |
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| Title | The Making of the New Testament Documents Biblical interpretation series, v. 39 |
| Author | Edward Earle Ellis |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint |
| Publisher | BRILL, 2002 |
| ISBN | 0391041681, 9780391041684 |
| Length | 517 pages |
| Subjects | › › Architecture / Interior Design / General Religion / Biblical Criticism & Interpretation / New Testament Religion / Biblical Studies / General Religion / Christianity / History Religion / Theology |
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