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The Making of the New Testament
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The story of the making of the New Testament is one in which scrolls bumped across cobbled Roman roads and pitched through rolling Mediterranean seas, finally finding their destinations in stuffy, dimly lit Christian house churches in Corinth or Colossae. There they were read aloud and reread, handled and copied, forwarded and collected, studied and treasured. And eventually they were brought together to make up our New Testament.
This revised and expanded edition of The Making of the New Testament is a textbook introduction to the origin, collection, copying and canonizing of the New Testament documents. Like shrewd detectives reading subtle whispers of evidence, biblical scholars have studied the trail of clues and pieced together the story of these books. Arthur Patzia tells the story, answering our many questions:
Explore these questions and more about these Scriptures whose everyday, gritty story rings true to their extraordinary message: the palpable mystery of the Word made flesh.
List of Tables and Figures
Preface
Abbreviations
Part 1: The Literary World of the New Testament
Part 2: The Making of the Gospels
Part 3: The Making of Paul?s Letters
Part 4: The Making of Other New Testament Literature
Part 5: The Making of the New Testament Canon
Part 6: The Making of New Testament Manuscripts: Writing, Copying and Transmitting
Part 7: Making Sense of Textual Variants and the Practice of Textual Criticism
Appendix 1: Canon of the Old Testament
Appendix 2: Significant Leaders of the Early Church
Appendix 3: Early Canonical Lists and Collections of the New Testament
Appendix 4: Later Canonical Lists of the New Testament
Appendix 5: Early Manuscripts Containing the New Testament
Glossary
Selected Bibliography
Modern Author Index
Subject Index
Scripture Index