The ENGLISH BIBLE KING JAMES VERSION · Volume Two the New Testament and the Apocrypha by Hammond, Gerald -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Title Page Contents Preface Abbreviations THE TEXT OF THE NEW TESTAMENT AND THE APOCRYPHA

New Testament Narratives

Matthew Mark Luke John Acts

The Pauline Collection

Romans 1 Corinthians 2 Corinthians Galatians Ephesians Philippians Colossians 1 Thessalonians 2 Thessalonians [The Pastoral Epistles]

1 Timothy 2 Timothy Titus

Philemon Hebrews

The Catholic Epistles

James 1 Peter 2 Peter 1 John 2 John 3 John Jude

Revelation The Apocrypha

1 Esdras 2 Esdras Tobit Judith The Rest of the Chapters of the Book of Esther Wisdom of Solomon Sirach (Ecclesiasticus) Baruch, with the Epistle of Jeremiah Song of the Three Holy Children Susanna Bel and the Dragon Prayer of Manasses 1 Maccabees 2 Maccabees

CONTEXT, RECEPTION, CRITICISM

Part I. Historical Contexts

Backgrounds

Josephus • [Jewish Philosophies]

• [Circumcision of Gentile Converts] • [John the Baptist] • [James the Brother of Jesus]

Philo • [Pontius Pilate and Roman Rule in Judea] Tacitus • [Nero’s Persecution of Christians in Rome]

• [A Gentile’s View of Jewish Beliefs and Practices] • [A Brief History of Roman Rule in Judea]

Suetonius • [Nero’s Persecution of Christians in Rome]

• [Nero’s Anticipated Resurrection]

Pliny • [Correspondence with Emperor Trajan Regarding Alleged Christians] The Community Rule (from the Dead Sea Scrolls) 2 Esdras 7:36–105 Virgil • Eclogue 4 Plutarch • [The Birth of Alexander the Great] Philostratus, The Life of Apollonius of Tyana

• [The Birth and Youth of Apollonius] • [Apollonius Exorcises a Youth and Heals Several People] • [Apollonius Exorcises Another Youth] • [Apollonius Calls for the Purification of the Acropolis] • [Apollonius Raises a Girl from the Dead] • [Apollonius on Trial Before Emperor Domitian] • [Apollonius Rejoins His Friends after His Miraculous Escape] • [Apollonius’s Death, Ascension, and Continuing Appearances]

Early Developments

Papias • [The Origins of the Gospels] The Acts of Paul and Thecla Marcion • [Testimony of Irenaeus Against Marcion]

• [Testimony of Tertullian Against Marcion] • The Antitheses

The Gospel of Thomas Valentinus • The Gospel of Truth Ptolemy • [A Version of the Valentinian Gnostic Myth] Toledoth Yeshu (The Generations of Jesus)

Part II. Exegesis

Precritical Exegesis

Origen • [Discrepancies Between the Gospels] Augustine • The Harmony of the Gospels

• Sermon on John 6:1–14

Tertullian • On Flight in Time of Persecution Thomas Aquinas • Catena Aurea [on Matthew 27:51–56] Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan

• [The Authority of Scripture Dependent on the Sovereign] • [The Authority Christ Left to Churches]

Critical Exegesis

Hermann Samuel Reimarus • [Contradictions in the Gospels’ Resurrection Accounts] David Friedrich Strauss, The Life of Jesus Critically Examined

• Definition of the Evangelical Mythus • Criteria by Which to Distinguish the Unhistorical in the Gospel Narrative • The Miraculous Multiplication of the Loaves and Fishes

Friedrich Nietzsche • [The Genealogy of Christian Morality] Wilhelm Wrede • The Messianic Secret Albert Schweitzer • The Quest of the Historical Jesus Rudolf Bultmann • The “Krisis” of the World: [The Christology of John’s Gospel] Hans Conzelmann • [The Middle of Time in Luke–Acts] Brigitte Kahl • No Longer Male: Masculinity Struggles Behind Galatians 3.28?

Interdisciplinary Approaches

Paul Ricoeur • Listening to the Parables of Jesus Frank Kermode • [Being and Becoming in John’s Prologue] Werner H. Kelber • [The Gospel of Mark as Written Parable] Dennis R. MacDonald • Luke’s Eutychus and Homer’s Elpenor: Acts 20:7–12 and Odyssey 10–12 Wayne A. Meeks • The Polyphonic Ethics of the Apostle Paul Richard B. Hays • Intertextual Echo in Romans

Part III. Poetic Reimaginings

Lyric

The Dream of the Rood William Dunbar • Done Is a Battell on the Dragon Blak John Donne • La Corona George Herbert • The Agonie

• Sepulchre • Marie Magdalene

Richard Crashaw • On St. Peter cutting off Malchus his eare

• And He answered them nothing • To Pontius washing his blood-stained hands • On our crucified Lord naked and bloody

Henry Vaughan • The Night John Milton • [When I Consider …] Sonnet XIX William Blake • The Everlasting Gospel Emily Dickinson • [“Sown in dishonor”!]

• [I shall know why - when Time is over] • [Dying! Dying in the night!] • [He forgot - and I - remembered] • [You’re right - “the way is narrow”] • [Do People moulder equally] • [He gave away his Life] • [One Crucifixion is recorded - only] • [Of Paul and Silas it is said] • [“Remember Me” implored the Thief] • [One crown that no one seeks] • [Proud of my broken heart, since thou did’st break it]

Christina Rossetti • Good Friday

• St. Barnabas

Gerard Manley Hopkins • The Caged Skylark

• The Candle Indoors

Thomas Hardy • The Respectable Burgher

• A Drizzling Easter Morning

William Butler Yeats • The Magi

• The Second Coming • The Mother of God • A Stick of Incense

T. S. Eliot • Journey of the Magi James Weldon Johnson • Saint Peter Relates an Incident of the Resurrection Day Countee Cullen • Simon the Cyrenian Speaks

• Judas Iscariot

Elizabeth Bishop • Roosters

• The Prodigal

Hymns and Spirituals

HYMNS

Nahum Tate • While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks Isaac Watts • Alas! And Did My Saviour Bleed Charles Wesley • Come, Sinners, to the Gospel Feast

• And Can It Be, That I Should Gain

Reginald Heber • Holy, Holy, Holy! Lord God Almighty! Matthew Bridges • Crown Him with Many Crowns Caroline M. Noel • At the Name of Jesus

SPIRITUALS

Done Found My Lost Sheep Were You There, When They Crucified My Lord? The Angel Roll the Stone Away I Got a Home in-a That Rock Steal Away to Jesus

Epic

Juvencus, Libri Evangeliorum Quattuor • [Christ’s Judgment, Crucifixion, and Resurrection] Roger P. H. Green • [Juvencus’s Inversion of Virgil’s Aeneid] Marco Girolamo Vida, Christiad • [The Exorcism of Legion] John Milton, Paradise Regained • [Christ’s Third Temptation]

Part IV. Case Studies

The Character of Pontius Pilate

Tertullian • [Pilate: A Christian in Heart] John Chrysostom • Homily on Matthew 27:11–12 The Letter of Pilate to Claudius Paradosis Pilati (The Handing Over of Pilate) The Dream of Pilate’s Wife E. P. Sanders • [A Historical Examination of Jesus’ Arrest and Trial]

The Meaning of Romans 7

Origen • [Paul’s Laws and Personae] Jerome • [Free Will and God’s Grace] Augustine of Hippo • [Paul Speaks of Himself in Romans 7] Martin Luther • [The Righteous Are at the Same Time Sinners]

• [The Use of the Law]

Karl Barth • [The Meaning of Religion in Romans 7] Rudolf Bultmann • [The Self Split by Sin Under the Law] Krister Stendahl • The Apostle Paul and the Introspective Conscience of the West Stanley K. Stowers • The Gentile Share in Christ’s Life J. Albert Harrill • The Slave Self: Paul and the Discursive “I”

Approaches to the Apocalypse

Dionysius of Alexandria • [Revelation’s Authority and Author] Nicholas of Lyra • [On Revelation 13:11–18] Geneva Bible • Revelation 13:16–17; 17:3–6 Hal Lindsey • [On Revelation 17:12–14; 13:11–18] Isaac Newton • [Biblical Symbolism and Revelation 17:1–6] Elizabeth Gaskell • [A Dialogue on Revelation from North and South] Austin Farrer • [The Structure of Revelation]

Part V. Translation

1 Corinthians 13

Wycliffe Tyndale Geneva Bible Rheims New Testament Bishops’ Bible King James Version Revised Version Revised Standard Version New Revised Standard Version New English Bible Good News Bible New International Version New Jerusalem Bible Richmond Lattimore J. B. Phillips Notes of John Bois

Permissions Acknowledgments MAPS

Israel Under the Maccabees Territory Conquered by Alexander the Great The Roman Empire The Eastern Mediterranean World Judea and Its Environs at Around the Time of Jesus

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