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Index
Reading Religious Texts series
Contents
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1 Introduction
What is ‘The New Testament’?
Part One History
Chapter 2 Reading Historical Documents Historically
What is History?
Storytelling and Haggadah
Historical Approaches and the New Testament I: Source Criticism
Historical Approaches and the New Testament II: Form Criticism, Redaction Criticism and Literary Criticism
Historical Approaches and the New Testament III: Social Scientific Criticism
Summary
Key words
Further Reading
Chapter 3 Contemporary Historical Approaches to the New Testament
Identity and Difference
Identity, Networks and Christian Origins
Postcolonial Criticism
1 Peter and Revelation in Postcolonial Contexts
Summary
Key Words
Further Reading
Chapter 4 Applying Methods Old and New
Mark 6.17–29: Form and Context
Storytelling
Telling Stories about Men and Women
Historical and Literary Locations: from Precise Datings to Postcolonial Mimicry
Summary
Key Words
Further Reading
Chapter 5 The Quest for the Historical Jesus
The Criteria of ‘Dissimilarity’ and ‘Embarrassment’
The Criterion of Historical Plausibility
The Criterion of Multiple Attestation
The Criterion of Multiple Criteria
The Resurrection and the Supernatural
Summary
Key Words
Further Reading
Part Two Revolutionary Origins of Christian Beliefs?
Chapter 6 The New Testament and the Origins of Major Christian Theological Ideas
Christology, the New Testament and the Origins of Christianity
Why Did Christology Happen?
Summary
Key Words
Further Reading
Chapter 7 Paul, the Law, Faith and Salvation
Perspectives on Paul
Was Paul consistent?
Origins of Paul’s Theology: Jesus?
Social Origins of Paul’s Theology
Summary
Key Words
Further Reading
Chapter 8 Paul’s Revolution for Our Times?
Jacob Taubes
Alain Badiou and Slavoj Žižek
Paul among the Marxists
Paul the Totalitarian?
Summary
Key Words
Further Reading
Part Three Reception
Chapter 9 What is ‘Reception History’?
Reception History and Historical Theology
Reception History: An Aid to ‘Correct Interpretation’?
Reception History: Anything Goes?
A Fear of Ancient History?
Summary
Key Words
Further Reading
Chapter 10 Methods and Questions in Reception History
Reception History and Historical Criticism
Reception History: Historical Change and Cultural Contexts
Reception History: National and International Contexts
Reception History and Individual Influence
The ‘Effects’ of New Testament Texts and New Testament Narratives
Summary
Key Words
Further Reading
Chapter 11 How to Read New Testament Scholarship
New Testament Scholarship and the ‘Great Man’ View of History
Race, Ethnicity and Judaism in New Testament Scholarship
‘The Arab World’ in New Testament Scholarship
Are New Testament Scholars a Threat to Anyone?
Final Remarks
Summary
Key Words
Further Reading
Part Four Extracts from New Testament Scholarship
Chapter 12 Scholars Reading the New Testament
Justin Meggitt on Living Standards in the Ancient World
Clothing
Housing
Stephen Moore on Postcolonialism and the Book of Revelation
The Book of Mimicry
Mimicry and Monstrosity
Markus Bockmuehl on Reception/Effective History
Shawn Kelley on Rudolf Bultmann and Reading Scholarship in Context
Notes
Index
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