{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"ItemList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"Book","name":"New Testament survey \/ by Merrill C. Tenney ; revised by Walter M. Dunnett","author":"Tenney, Merrill C.","isbn":"0802836119","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"WMB EERDMNS"},"datePublished":"1985","inLanguage":"English","description":"Part 1: The world of the New Testament -- 1. The political world -- The empire of Rome -- The provincial government -- The Hellenistic kingdoms -- The Jewish state -- 2. The social world and the economic world -- A. The social world -- Jewish society -- Pagan society -- Cultural attainments -- Moral standards -- B. The economic world -- Agriculture -- Industry -- Finance -- Transportation and travel -- 3. The religious world -- The Graeco-Roman pantheon -- Emperor worship -- The mystery religions -- The worship of the occult -- The philosophies -- 4. Judaism -- Origin -- Theology -- The Temple -- The synagogue -- The sacred year -- The educational system -- The literature -- The sects of Judaism -- The Diaspora -- 5. Jewish background for the New Testament, 200 B.C. -- A.D. 200 -- The nature of Judaism -- Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha -- The Dead Sea Scrolls -- Basic characteristics of the Qumran community -- Comparisons with the New Testament -- Part II: The Gospels: The records of the life of Christ -- The period of inception: 6 B.C. to A.D. 30 -- 6. The New Testament: Its name and content -- The name -- The content -- 7. The Gospels as literary works -- The synoptic problem -- Proposed solution -- 8. The Gospel of Matthew -- Origin -- Date and place -- Content -- Outline -- Emphasis -- Characters -- Special features -- 9. The Gospel of Mark -- Origin -- Date and place -- Content -- Outline -- Emphasis -- Characters -- 10. The Gospel of Luke -- Origin -- Author -- Date and place -- Content -- Outline -- Emphasis -- Characters -- 11. The Gospel of John -- Origin -- Author -- Date and place -- Content -- Outline -- Emphasis -- Purpose -- Characters -- 12. The life of Christ -- The secular sources of information -- The periods of Jesus' life -- The geography of Jesus' life -- The teaching of Jesus. \r\nPart 3: The records of the early church -- The period of expansion: A.D. 30 to 60 -- 13. The establishment of the church: Acts 1:1 to 8:3 -- The record: Acts -- The foundation: Acts 1:1 to 8:3 -- The first dispersion -- 14. The transition: Acts 8:4 to 11:18 -- The preaching in Samaria -- The Ethiopian eunuch -- The conversion of Paul -- The preaching of Peter -- 15. The Gentile church and the Pauline mission: Acts 11:19 to 15:35 -- The church at Antioch -- The mission to the Gentiles -- The Council at Jerusalem -- The literature of protest -- The Epistle of James -- The Epistle to the Galatians -- 16. The Pauline program: Acts 15:36 to 21:16 -- The second mission to Asia Minor -- The mission to Macedonia -- The Thessalonian letters -- The mission to Achaia -- The mission to Asia -- The Corinthian correspondence -- Background -- The \"lost letter\" -- The last visit to Corinth -- The projected mission -- The Epistle to the Romans -- The mission concluded -- 17. The Pauline imprisonment: Acts 21:17 to 28:31 -- Jerusalem -- The Epistles -- Philemon -- Ephesians -- Colossians -- Philippians -- Results of the Pauline imprisonment -- Part 4: The problems of the early church -- The period of consolidation: A.D. 60 to 100 -- 18. The institutional church: The pastoral epistles -- Background -- 1 Timothy -- Titus -- II Timothy -- Evaluation -- 19. The suffering church: 1 Peter -- 20. The break from Judaism: Hebrews -- 21. The peril of heresies: II Peter, Jude; I, II, II John -- 22. The expectant church: Revelation -- Part 5: The canon and text of the New Testament -- 23. The canon of the New Testament -- Definition -- Internal testimony -- External testimony -- Conclusions -- 24. The text and transmission of the New Testament.\n\nPublished in: Grand Rapids, Mich\n\nPhysical description: xix, 454 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.","bookEdition":null,"offers":{"@type":"Offer","availability":"https:\/\/schema.org\/OutOfStock"}}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"Book","name":"The Jesus quest : the third search for the Jew of Nazareth \/ Ben Witherington III.","author":"Witherington, B.","isbn":"0830815449","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"InterVarsity Press"},"datePublished":"1995","inLanguage":"English","description":"Contents:\tPreface : the first two quests -- Galilee & the Galilean : Jesus in his social setting -- Jesus the talking head : the Jesus of the Jesus Seminar -- Jesus the itinerant cynic philosopher : the works of John Dominic Crossan, Burton Mack and F. Gerald Downing -- Jesus, man of the Spirit : the works of Marcus Borg, Geza Vermes and Graham H. Twelftree -- Jesus the eschatological prophet : the works of E.P. Sanders and Maurice Casey -- Jesus the prophet of social change : the works of Gerd Theissen, Richard A. Horsley and R. David Kaylor -- Jesus the sage : the wisdom of God : the works of Elisabeth Schu\u0308ssler Fiorenza and Ben Witherington -- Jesus : marginal Jew or Jewish Messiah? : the works of John P. Meier, Peter Stulmacher, James D.G. Dunn, Marinus de Jonge, Markus Bockmuehl and N.T. Wright -- The journey's end : synopsis, conclusions, conjectures -- The death of the Messiah : the work of Raymond E. Brown. \r\n\r\nAbstract:\t\"Who is the Jesus behind the Gospel narratives? How would he have been understood by his contemporaries? Did the church transform a charismatic rabbi or a peasant-philosopher into its heavenly, incarnate Lord? Does the key to Jesus' real identity actually lie in the Gospel of Thomas, the Gospel of Peter or other noncanonical Jesus literature suppressed by the ancient orthodox church? What do the sects, parties and movements of Jewish Palestine tell us about the real Jesus, his words, his actions and his intentions?\" \"These are the questions being asked by a new generation of investigators of the man behind the origin of Christianity. Dubbed the Third Quest of the historical Jesus, this renewed effort is a transformation of the first quest, memorialized and chronicled by Albert Schweitzer, and the second quest, carried out in the 1950s and 1960s in the wake of extreme Bultmannian skepticism. Now in the 1990s, with the time, place and social setting of Jesus newly illumined by renewed and vigorous investigation of the Dead Sea Scrolls and other Jewish and Hellenistic sources, there has appeared a surge of scholarly books on Jesus within his Jewish and Mediterranean environment.\" \"The controversial works of John Dominic Crossan, Marcus Borg and Burton Mack, and the results of the Jesus Seminar have been thrust upon the public by publicists and media as the voices of learned consensus. Meanwhile, at the center of the scholarly investigation of Jesus, a less celebrated but certainly no less informed majority rejects many of the methods and conclusions of those who have captured the limelight.\"--Jacket.\r\n\r\nOther Notes\tIncludes bibliographical references (pages 288-294) and indexes.\n\nPublished in: Downers Grove, Ill.\n\nPhysical description: 304 pages ; 24 cm.","bookEdition":null,"offers":{"@type":"Offer","availability":"https:\/\/schema.org\/OutOfStock"}}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"Book","name":"The kingdom of the cults \/ Walter Martin.","author":"Martin, W.","isbn":"0871237962","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Bethany House Publishers"},"datePublished":"1985","inLanguage":"English","description":"Contents:\tThe kingdom of the cults -- Scaling the language barrier -- The psychological structure of cultism -- Jehovah's witnesses and the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society -- Christian Science -- Mormonism--the Latter-day Saints -- Spiritism--the Cult of Antiquity -- The Theosophical Society -- Zen Buddhism -- The Baha'i faith -- The Unity School of Christianity -- Herbert W. Armstrong and the Worldwide Church of God--Anglo-Israelism -- Unification Church -- L. Ron Hubbard and Scientology -- Eastern religions -- Islam: the message of Muhammed -- The cults on the world mission fields -- The Jesus of the cults -- Cult-evangelism--mission field on the doorstep -- The road to recovery. \r\nAbstract:\tProvides information on various new religions, cults, and sects including Theosophy, Scientology, Unitarianism, and Eastern religions.\n\nPublished in: Minneapolis, Minn.\n\nPhysical description: 544 pages ; 22 cm.","bookEdition":"Rev. and expanded ed.","offers":{"@type":"Offer","availability":"https:\/\/schema.org\/OutOfStock"}}}]}