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First published in 1953 and revised in 1961, Merrill Tenney's comprehensive survey has served to introduce the general reader, student, and teacher to the world and message of the New Testament. Written in a clear, nontechnical style, New Testament Survey begins with a survey of the social, political, economic, and religious background of the New Testament, and then goes on to examine the various groups of New Testament books, which are considered in their historical settings. The book concludes with a penetrating study of the New Testament canon. Undertaken at the request of Dr. Tenney, and prepared with his full approval, this 1985 revision by Walter M. Dunnett includes an entirely new chapter on the Jewish background of the New Testament, plus several new short sections, including materials on the Gospels and the canon of the New Testament. The bibliography has been enlarged and updated, and many of the book's numerous illustrations, maps, and charts are new. Great care has been exercised to retain the spirit and quality of the original work, ensuring that the book will remain a standard in the years to come.

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Quality pictures, charts, outlines, and a comprehensive knowledge of archaeology and modern viewpoints make this one of the most helpful and interesting introductions available.

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First published in 1953 and revised in 1961, Merrill Tenney's comprehensive survey has served to introduce the general reader, student, and teacher to the world and message of the New Testament. Written in a clear, nontechnical style, New Testament Survey begins with a survey of the social, political, economic, and religious background of the New Testament, and then goes on to examine the various groups of New Testament books, which are considered in their historical settings. The book concludes with a penetrating study of the New Testament canon. Undertaken at the request of Dr. Tenney, and prepared with his full approval, this 1985 revision by Walter M. Dunnett includes an entirely new chapter on the Jewish background of the New Testament, plus several new short sections, including materials on the Gospels and the canon of the New Testament. The bibliography has been enlarged and updated, and many of the book's numerous illustrations, maps, and charts are new. Great care has been exercised to retain the spirit and quality of the original work, ensuring that the book will remain a standard in the years to come.

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The culmination of a lifetime of study, this comprehensive New Testament theology brings out the rich variety of New Testament thought while demonstrating its inner unity. New Testament theology, Donald Guthrie maintains, centers on Jesus Christ--his person, work and mission--and is unified by repeated emphasis on the fulfillment of Old Testament promise, community, the Spirit and the future hope.And extended introduction surveys the history, nature and method of New Testament theology and sets forth the distinctives of Guthrie's synthetic approach. Guthrie then examines New Testament thought under the thematic headings God, man and his world, Christology, the mission of Christ, the Holy Spirit, the Christian life, the church, the future, the New Testament approach to ethics, and Scripture. Within each chapter he explores the synoptic Gospels, the Johanine literature, Acts, Paul, Hebrews, the remaining Epistles and Revelation.Marked by scholarly rigor and thoroughness, this volume will serve as a standard reference and text, reflecting mature conservative scholarship at its best.

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This work is not a history of New Testament times, nor an account of New Testament religion. Nor does it proceed from a view that the New Testament was written as theology. We must bear in mind that the writers of the New Testament books were not writing set theological pieces. They were concerned with the needs of the churches for which they wrote. Those churches already had the Old Testament, but these new writings became in time the most significant part of the Scriptures of the believing community. As such, they should be studied in their own right, and these questions should be asked: What do these writings mean? What is the theology they express or imply? What is of permanent validity in them? We read these writings across a barrier of many centuries and from a standpoint of a very different culture. We make every effort to allow for this, but we never succeed perfectly. In this book I am trying hard to find out what the New Testament authors meant, and this not as an academic exercise, but as the necessary prelude to our understanding of what their writings mean for us today. -- From the Introduction

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1868 Excerpt: ...The shall ye see is to the council, the re-Luke xxii. 66--71. 67. Luke gives presentatives of the chosen people, 8o soon these indignities, and in the same place as to be judged by Him to whom all judg-here, adding, what indeed might have been ment is committed--the power in contrast suspected that it was not the members of to his present weakness--sitting--even as the Sanhedrim, but the men who held they now sat to judge Him; and the Jesus in custody, who inflicted them on coming in the clouds of heaven (see Dan. Him. The word rendered buffeted vii. 37) looks onward to the awful time of means to strike with the fist. The the end, when every eye shall sec Him. following verb (smote Aim) is, generally, 66. In Levit. xxi. 10 (sec also to strike a fiat blow with the back of the Levit. x. 6) the High Priest is ordered hand--but also, and probablv here, since not to rend his clothes; but that appears another set of persons are described as doto apply only to mourning for the dead, ing it, to strike with a staff". In 1 Mace. xi. 71, and in Josephus, P.. J. 69--76. Our Lord Is Thrice Deii. 15. 4, we have instances of High Priests Nied Ey Peter. Mark xiv. 66--72. rending their clothes. On rending the Luke xxii. 56--62. John xviii. 17, 18, clothes at hearing blasphemy, see 2 Kings 25--27. This narrative furnishes one of xviii. 37. 66. This was not a formal the clearest instances of the entire indecondemnation, but only a previous vote or pendency of the four Gospeh of one anexpression of opinion. That took place in other. In it, they all differ; and, supthe morning, see ch. xxvii. 1, and especially posing the denial to have taken place cock crow, thou shalt deny me thrice. And he went out, thrice, and only thrwe, cannot be literally serve to shew what the agree...