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The New Testament: A Literary History
Author(s): Gerd Theissen (Author)
- Publisher: Fortress Press
- Publication Date: November 1, 2011
- Language: English
- Print length: 443 pages
- ISBN-10: B00CDJXPN0
- ISBN-13: 9781451408683
Book Description
Gerd Theissen takes up the problem of the emergence of the New Testament canon out of the wide variety of early Christian literature. Drawing from Max Weber's discussion of the evolution of religious organizations, Theissen describes the development of early Christian literature as a series of phases in the life of the movement: the charismatic, the pseudepigraphic, the functional, and the canonical.
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About the Author
Gerd Theissen is Professor of New Testament at the University of Heidelberg, Germany, and author of The Religion of the Earliest Churches (Fortress Press, 1999) and The Shadow of the Galilean (Fortress Press, 1987). He is coauthor of The Historical Jesus: A Comprehensive Guide (Fortress Press, 1988) and coeditor of The Social Setting of Jesus and the Gospels (Fortress Press, 2001).
