Authors of New Testament texts employed rhetorical strategies and devices in attempting to shape the behaviors of individuals and the culture of the earliest Christian communities. Shively T. J. Smith ...
Providing an overview of the critical approaches and methods currently applied to the study of biblical texts, it also includes chapters on each of the writings in the New Testament. The volume serves ...
The New Testament differs from the Old Testament and Apocrypha in several respects. First, the works of which it is made up were written in a comparatively short space of time – about seventy years if ...