(Ebook) Exploring the New Testament Volume two A guide to the Letters and Revelation 2nd Edition by I Howard Marshall, Stephen Travis, Ian Paul ISBN 9780830825400 0830869409

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(Ebook) Exploring the New Testament Volume two A guide to the Letters and Revelation 2nd Edition Table of contents:

A Setting the Scene

1. The world of first-century Christians

How do we know what we know?

The emergence of Roman power

A century of civil conflict

Augustus’ successors

The Julio-Claudian dynasty

The Flavian dynasty

Government of the empire

The provinces

Client kingdoms

Cities and colonies

The power of propaganda

The army

The legions

Auxiliaries

The praetorian guard

Roman society

Citizenship

Classes

Women

Patrons and clients

Honour and shame

Language and culture

Entertainment

Religion and philosophy

Traditional religion

Healing cults

Mystery religions

Fate, astrology and magic

The imperial cult

Cynics, Stoics and Epicureans

Romans, Jews and Christians

Essay topics

Further reading

B. Paul and His Letters

2. Letters in the New Testament

Ancient letter-writing

The format of letters

The format of Paul’s letters

Opening

Thanksgiving

Body

Closing

Letters or sermons?

Letters of recommendation or introduction?

Other New Testament letters

Further reading

3. Paul, his letters and his life

Where can we learn about Paul?

Material from outside the New Testament

The Acts of the Apostles

The letters of Paul

Difficulties in the Pauline letters

Were the letters all written by Paul?

Do we have the letters in their original form?

Is Paul a reliable informant about himself?

Early days

Paul’s call and conversion

Paul as a missionary

Paul the captive

Problems of chronology

Essay topics

Further reading

4. The letter to the Galatians

What led to the writing of the letter?

The structure of the letter

Paul’s argument in the letter

Was the letter effective?

'New perspective' readings of Paul

To whom was the letter sent?

When was the letter written?

Consequences for the date of the letter

For today’s Galatians

Essay topics

Further reading

5. The letters to the Thessalonians

Paul and Thessalonica

The contents of 1 Thessalonians

The contents of 2 Thessalonians

Problems in 2 Thessalonians

For today’s Thessalonians

Essay topics

Further reading

6. The ‘first’ letter to the Corinthians

Paul’s mission

The ‘previous’ letter

Getting behind the second (first) letter

Continuing immorality

Party squabbles in the congregation

The rich and the poor

‘Strong’ and ‘weak’ believers

Spiritual superiority and inferiority

Questions about the resurrection

Surveying 1 Corinthians

Party spirit

Immorality and litigation

Sexual and marital issues

Food offered to idols

Congregational meetings

Spiritual gifts

The resurrection

In conclusion

For today’s Corinthians

Essay topics

Further reading

7. The ‘second’ letter to the Corinthians

An overview of the problems

The events leading up to 2 Corinthians 1–7

Identifying the tearful letter

Survey of 2 Corinthians 1–7

Thanksgiving (Berakah)

The rift with the congregation

The nature of apostleship

Resuming the story

2. Corinthians 8 and 9

More fragmentary letters?

The problem of 2 Corinthians 10–13

The occasion of 2 Corinthians 10–13

For today’s Corinthians

Essay topics

Further reading

8. The letter to the Romans

The purpose of the letter

The nature of the argument in the letter

An overview of the letter

The opening (and the closing) (Rom. 1:1–15; 15:14–16:27)

The text is announced! (Rom. 1:16–17)

Universal sin and guilt (Rom. 1:18–3:20)

The main proposition (Rom. 3:21–31)

Abraham as an example of faith (Rom. 4:1–25

The results of justification (Rom. 5:1–11)

Christ contrasted with Adam (Rom. 5:12–21)

No longer under sin and under the law (Rom. 6:1–23)

The law is good – but impotent (Rom. 7:1–25)

New life by the Spirit (Rom. 8:1–39)

The problem of Jewish unbelief in the gospel (Rom. 9–11)

Practical implications of the new life (Rom. 12–13)

Jews and Gentiles living together in the same congregation (Rom. 14:1–15:13)

Paul’s mission – to Rome and beyond (Rom. 15:14–33)

Closing greetings (Rom. 16:1–27)

Scribes do strange things

Again – the purpose of the letter

The composition of Romans

The problems of Romans 16

Two versions of one letter

Two separate letters

For today’s Romans

Essay topics

Further reading

9. The letter to the Philippians

Paul and the congregation at Philippi

Paul’s situation

The situation and needs of the church

Attacks on the church

Tensions within the church

A rival version of the gospel

The structure of the letter

Philippians as a letter

Philippians as an example of rhetoric

The development of the message

Philippians – one letter or several fragments?

For today’s Philippians

Essay topics

Further reading

10. The letter to Philemon

Paul, Philemon and Onesimus

The structure of the letter

The outcome

For a twenty-first-century Philemon

Essay topics

Further reading

11. The letter to the Colossians

The planting of the congregation

Why was the letter written?

The ‘philosophy’

The structure of the letter

Paul’s teaching in the letter

Paul’s circumstances

Other possible places of origin

Did Paul write Colossians?

Arguments against Pauline authorship

Arguments in favour of Pauline authorship

For today’s Colossians

Essay topics

Further reading

12. The letter to the Ephesians

To whom was the letter sent?

What is the letter?

The unity of the church

‘Power’ language

The structure of the letter

A quick survey of the letter

Who wrote the letter?

Arguments against Pauline authorship

Arguments for Pauline authorship

Weighing the probabilities

For today’s Ephesians

Essay topics

Further reading

13. The letters to Timothy and Titus

Letters that are somehow different

The problem of non-Pauline authorship

To whom were the letters written?

When were the letters written?

What are the letters about?

The structure of the letter to Titus

An overview of Titus

The structure of 1 Timothy

An overview of 1 Timothy

The structure of 2 Timothy

An overview of 2 Timothy

What is the situation reflected in the letters?

Opposition and heresy

The development of church order

Christian living and pastoral care

Language and style

The theology and the way it is expressed

Evaluating the evidence

Not by Paul?

Written or dictated by Paul?

A middle way?

For today’s congregational leaders

Essay topics

Further reading

14. Paul– the missionary theologian

Paul as an apostle

Humanity and its need

Creation

Human nature

Sin

Getting right with God

Justification by works

Covenantal nomism

The marks of belonging

Paul’s radical alternative

The language of salvation

Sacrifice

Justification

Redemption

Reconciliation

Salvation

Faith

The new life of believers

God as Father

‘In Christ’

The work of the Spirit

Theological implications for Paul’s understanding of God

The community of believers

Ministry and the functions of the church

What principles shape Christian behaviour?

Five general principles

The new way of life

Some specific areas of concern

Relations between men and women

Slavery

The state

Money and possessions

The future for the world and believers

The missionary obligation

Essay topics

Further reading

15. New Testament letters – interpretation and authorship

Understanding what we read in New Testament letters

Two related activities

Speeches in the form of letters?

Entering into the situation

Getting the message

Critical methods in the study of the New Testament

Historical criticism

Form criticism

Source criticism

Redaction criticism

Textual criticism

Canonical criticism

Literary criticism

Socio-rhetorical criticism

Reception history and reader-response criticism

Ideology criticism

The question of pseudonymity

The traditional view

Alternative suggestions

Further reactions

Essay topics

Further reading

C. Letters by Other Church Leaders

16. The letter to the Hebrews

Clues about the recipients

What kind of a document?

The structure and argument of Hebrews

Theological themes of Hebrews

The high priest and his sacrifice

Other perspectives on Jesus

Salvation and the Christian hope

Discipleship

Special issues

The author’s thought-world

Is Hebrews anti-Jewish?

Where were the readers located?

Who wrote the letter?

Some issues for today

Essay topics

Further reading

17. The letter of James

The character of the letter of James

James as exhortation or ‘parenesis’

James as wisdom

James as a letter

The structure of the letter

Who wrote the letter?

To whom was the letter addressed? Why, and when?

Jewish Christians in Palestine?

Jewish Christians in the Dispersion?

James and the teaching of Jesus

James and Paul

Themes in James

God

Jesus

Living with integrity

The law

The testing of faith

Poverty and wealth

Some issues for today

Essay topics

Further reading

18. The first letter of Peter

Outline of the letter

The situation of the recipients

What was the nature of their suffering?

The letter’s message to the church

Christian existence in a hostile environment

The grace of God in Christ

The household of God

God’s people

Facing suffering

Christian responsibilities

Who wrote 1 Peter? Assessing the arguments

Some issues for today

Essay topics

Further reading

19. The second letter of Peter and the letter of Jude

What do these letters have in common?

The letter of Jude – its purpose

The false teachers

Jude’s strategy for advising his readers

Who wrote this letter?

2 Peter – genre and outline

2 Peter – the problem of authorship

The false teachers in 2 Peter

The purpose and theology of 2 Peter The hope of Christ’s coming

Some issues for today

Essay topics

Further reading

20. The letters of John

1 John – background and authorship

Is the author of 1 John the same as the author of the Fourth Gospel?

The location of the author and his readers

The circumstances addressed in 1 John The nature of the false teaching

John’s response to the false teaching

The purpose and shape of 1 John

Some issues for today

2 and 3 John – their relation to 1 John

The context and content of 2 John Hospitality to missionaries

The context and content of 3 John

3 John – evidence of an emerging pattern of church leadership?

Essay topics

Further reading

D. Apocalyptic Literature

21. The Revelation to John

Language and genre

Historical context and dating

Dating

Authorship

Context

Theological perspectives

God

Jesus

The Spirit

The followers of the Lamb

Mythological context and emperor worship

Use of the Old Testament

Some examples

Structure and composition

Numbers and their meaning

Phrase repetition and word frequencies

Numerology

Words and their numbers

The decoding of 666 (Rev. 13:18)

Interpretative issues

Traditional approaches

Image, symbol and metaphor

Some issues for today

Essay topics

Further reading

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