While most books on biblical rhetoric focus primarily on the epistles, this volume from prominent scholar C. Clifton Black considers the variety of rhetorical critical approaches now being applied to the Gospels (including Luke-Acts). This updated edition takes into account recent research since the[...]
Mark 's genius lies, not in telling a story about Jesus, but in creating conditionsunder which the reader may experience the peculiar quality of God 's good news. TheEvangelist hurries one along breathlessly, immediately, making sure that thereader lurches with the characters into one pothole after [...]
This broadly adopted textbook weds literary and historical approaches to focus on the New Testament's structure and meaning. Anatomy of the New Testament is systematic, critical, and reliable in its scope and content.This seventh edition has been revised throughout, to take account of current trends[...]
Redaction criticism attempts to identify biblical authors' theological interests by examining their adaptation of sources. Focusing on representative studies of Jesus' disciples in the Gospel of Mark, this pioneering book by C. Clifton Black has become the standard evaluation of that method's exeget[...]