Offers a clear, practical approach to the New Testament, with three chapters of basic historical coverage and nine chapters of analysis and interpretation. Focus is on the writings themselves rather than historical, introductory, or philosophical issues. Improvements throughout, include new treatments of additional representative books, new illustrations, more succinct writing, and new text-related questions.

Anatomy of the New Testament: A Guide to its Structure and Meaning

Religion & Spirituality

Smith, D. Moody

Black, C. Clifton

Spivey, Robert A.

Christian Books & Bibles

Pearson College Div

C. Clifton Black provides a thorough analysis of the most famous prayer in the Christian church, the Lord’s Prayer. He begins with an impressionist painting of how the ancients prayed during Jesus’ time in order to set the context for understanding the prayer he taught his disciples. Throughout the book, Black systematically interprets the rich meanings of each part of the Lord’s prayer. Additionally, he includes an overview of Christian thought on the Lord’s Prayer from early church mothers and fathers like Tertullian and Teresa of Avila to modern theologians like Karl Barth. Uniquely, this book is an academic study of the Lord’s Prayer with a focus on the rhetorical culture from which it developed as well as the theological, literary, and historical meanings of the prayer itself.

The Lord's Prayer (Interpretation: Resources for the Use of Scripture in the Church)

Westminster/John Knox Press

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 first volume was published in 2001 and features two brand new chapters. Black provides an overview of the different forms of rhetorical criticism, with examples from the Gospel of John; studies of characterization in Matthew and Luke; an analysis of classical rhetorical criteria found in Mark and Luke-Acts; and an analysis of the rhetoric of the parables with implications for contemporary preaching.

The Rhetoric of the Gospel, Second Edition: Theological Artistry in the Gospels and Acts

A Three-Dimensional Jesus: An Introduction to the Synoptic Gospels

Mark’s genius lies, not in telling a story about Jesus, but in creating conditions under which the reader may experience the peculiar quality of God’s good news. The Evangelist hurries one along breathlessly, “immediately,” making sure that the reader lurches with the characters into one pothole after another. “What is this new teaching” that consorts with the flagrantly sinful, turning the pious homicidal, intimates into strangers, and mustard seeds into “the greatest of all … shrubs”? Jesus’ closest adherents, the Twelve, are among the most muddled. Who can blame them? They ask for an obscure parable’s interpretation and receive an answer even more confounding. They are told to feed thousands with next to nothing. Their boat almost capsizes while their teacher sleeps. As they oar in rough waters, the teacher strides the waves intending to bypass them. Putting the reader in the same boat, Mark structures conversations with Jesus that make little sense, if any. The Twelve are craven, stupid, self-serving, and disobedient: meet the average Christian. Besides, “their hearts were hardened.” Who hardens hearts? God. Should not God’s Messiah lift the burdens of those following him? What kind of Christ heads to a cross, handing his disciples another for themselves. “Do you not yet understand?” from the Introduction

Abingdon New Testament Commentaries: Mark

ABINGDON PRESS *

Reading Scripture with the Saints

Lutterworth Press

For over forty years, this widely acclaimed introduction to the New Testament weds literary and historical approaches to focus on the New Testament's structure and meaning. Esteemed New Testament scholars Robert A. Spivey, D. Moody Smith, and C. Clifton Black provide teachers and students with a reading of early Christian literature that is at once systematic, critical and reliable in its scope and content. Previously published by Pearson/Prentice Hall, Fortress Press is now proud to represent this classic introduction!

Anatomy of the New Testament

Fortress Press

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 exegetical reliability.Comprehensively reviewing recent scholarship, Black identifies three distinctive types of redaction criticism in Markan interpretation. He demonstrates that diverse redaction-critical interpretations of the disciples in Mark have bolstered rather than controlled scholarly presuppositions to a degree that impugns the method's reliability for interpreting Mark. The book concludes by assessing redaction criticism's usefulness and offering a more balanced approach to Mark's interpretation.This second edition includes a substantial, detailed afterword that revisits the book's primary issues, converses with its critics, and provides an update of Markan scholarship over the past twenty-five years.

The Disciples According to Mark: Markan Redaction in Current Debate, Second Edition (Journal for the Study of the New Testament Supplement Series, 27)

Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.

I imagine those, whether Christian or not, who would enjoy Scripture if they did not find it so intimidating in size, complexity, and the frightening things sometimes ascribed to it. For them I offer up a simple and, I hope, friendly introduction to Christian Scripture. - C. Clifton Black (from the introduction) Thus begins this extremely useful anthology of the Christian Bible for the common reader. C. Clifton Black organizes his unique guide according the opening chapter of Genesis. 568 scriptural excerpts variously sing of Gods majesty and mystery, lifes darkness and light, a divine ecology, distinctions and differences, seasons and cycles, the dependable and the unreliable, Gods economy, and Sabbath. Accessible for scholars, laypeople, students, teachers, Christians and non-Christians, this enjoyable book can be used for casual reading, devotional study, and theological reflection. Poetic and resonant, The Eighth Day of Creation offers an endless adventure into Scripture and exposes seekers to, as Black says, the joy of a fully human life, fully lived before the God who beyond all measure enjoys us and all of creation.

The Eighth Day of Creation: An Anthology of Christain Scripture

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Anatomy of the New Testament: A Guide to its Structure and Meaning

The Lord's Prayer (Interpretation: Resources for the Use of Scripture in the Church)

The Rhetoric of the Gospel, Second Edition: Theological Artistry in the Gospels and Acts

The Lord's Prayer (Interpretation: Resources for the Use of Scripture in the Church)

A Three-Dimensional Jesus: An Introduction to the Synoptic Gospels

Abingdon New Testament Commentaries: Mark

Reading Scripture with the Saints

Anatomy of the New Testament

The Disciples According to Mark: Markan Redaction in Current Debate, Second Edition (Journal for the Study of the New Testament Supplement Series, 27)

The Eighth Day of Creation: An Anthology of Christain Scripture