The First Edition of the New Testament is a groundbreaking book that argues that the New Testament is not the product of a centuries-long process of development. Its history, David Trobisch finds, is the history of a book--an all Greek Christian bible--published as early as the second century C.E. and intended by its editors to be read as a whole. Trobisch claims that this bible achieved wide circulation and formed the basis of all surviving manuscripts of the New Testament.

The First Edition of the New Testament

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Trobisch, David

Words, Language & Grammar

Oxford University Press

The First Edition of the New Testament is a groundbreaking book that argues that the New Testament is not the product of a centuries-long process of development. Its history, David Trobisch finds, is the history of a book-an all Greek Christian bible-published as early as the second century C.E. and intended by its editors to be read as a whole. Trobisch claims that this bible achieved wide circulation and formed the basis of all surviving manuscripts of the New Testament.

In this fascinating book David Trobisch looks at the Pauline letters of the New Testament by examining the oldest manuscripts of the Letters of Paul. Then he describes characteristic features of the Pauline letters and interprets them in the light of documented editorial practices by comparing them to other published letter collections of the time (Cicero, Plinius etc). He comes to the conclusion that the New Testament collection of Pauline letters is best understood if one assumes that the Apostle Paul himself prepared some of them for publication (Romans, I &amp; II Corinthians and Galatians). It is written in accessible language for anyone interested in New Testament scholarship. With footnotes, tables, and illustrations. The author taught at the University of Heidelberg, Yale Divinity School, and Bangor Theological Seminary.

Paul's Letter Collection: Tracing the Origins

Religion & Spirituality

Christian Books & Bibles

Fortress Press

"This book and exhibit reflect the Bible's global appeal and impact through many centuries. . .The Bible has played an enormous role across the centuries in the shaping of institutions and societies; and it has shaped and anchored the lives of untold millions of people. In this book you will learn how the Bible spread from Palestine to Northeast Africa, to the Medieval West, to Central and Eastern Europe, to the British Isles, to China, to early America--and even to the moon. . . And you will see manuscripts, artifacts, and books that played key roles in worldwide spread over the last two millennia."

Verbum Domini II: God's Word Goes Out to the Nations

Atwood, Jennifer

Kirpatrick, Jonathan

Crowley, Rory P.

Museum Of The Bible

A Pumpelhoober is someone who has bad luck. This particular Pumpelhoober has a German father, and an American mother, but was born in a part of Africa where everyone speaks French. So what else does that make him?

The Adventures of Pumpelhoober

Children's Books

Bruchmann, Eva

Biographies

Quiet Waters Pubns

The New Testament claims to be a collection of writings from eight authors. The manuscript tradition and the first provenance narratives place its publication in the middle of the second century, when many other books on Jesus and his first followers were circulating. Competing publications on Jesus communicate knowledge secretly passed on from generation to generation, transcending time and geographical boundaries. Like the Canonical Edition of the New Testament, they use first-century voices to address second-century concerns, such as whether the Creator of the world was the Father of Jesus, the role of women in congregations, the culture of producing and distributing books, and the authority of Jewish Scripture for Christians. The shared meta-narrative is the story of a divine messenger sent to earth to deliver the promise of eternal life to those who believe his message. The editorial narrative of the Canonical Edition names a certain Theophilus as the implied publisher who assembles the collection, organizes it in four volumes, and presents it to the public when Paul is in Rome and faces his day in court. Historically, the New Testament was published a century after Paul's death as an interpolated and enlarged revision of the Marcionite Edition, which combined one gospel book with several letters of Paul. It presented itself as a publication of autographs for an international Greek-speaking readership in Central Europe, North Africa, Asia Minor, and Greece. This perspective provides new answers to old exegetical questions like the genre of the Johannine corpus, the function of synoptic parallels, and the authorship of the letters of Paul.

On the Origin of Christian Scripture: The Evolution of the New Testament Canon in the Second Century

Echoes of Resilience: A Tale of Two Grandmothers

Biographies & Memoirs

Hult, Gertrude Jacobson

Trobisch, Gertrud Beer

Historical

Quiet Waters Publications

The Adventures of Pumpelhoober: In Africa, America, and Europe

Die Endredaktion des Neuen Testaments: Eine Untersuchung zur Entstehung der christlichen Bibel (German Edition)

Literature & Fiction

World Literature

Die Entstehung der Paulusbriefsammlung: Studien zu den Anfängen der christlichen Publizistik | With English Preface and Chapter Summaries (German Edition)

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