Criticism, interpretation, etc 

Library of New Testament studies ; 

The ten essays in this volume, written by leading international scholars, provide an innovative analysis of the methods of comparison frequently deployed in the study of the New Testament. The contributors reflect on the possibility and validity of the comparative exercise, on the methods that are most effective and intellectually defensible, on the purposeof such comparison, and on its perils and piftalls. Addressing these questions at both a theoretical and hermeneutical level, and through case studies of actual examples, scholars including Troels Engberg-Pedersen, Margaret M. Mitchell, Francis Watson and C. Kavin Rowe discuss such matters as the necessity of anachronism, relational hermeneutics,a nd the place of the New Testament in its Christian literary environment. This book provides a long-awaited, up-to-date methodological resource for the numerous comparative projects spawned by New Testament studies throughout the world. --Back Cover. 

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Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Introduction: posing the questions / John M.G. Barclay and B.G. White -- 'O wad some pow'r the giftie gie us, To see oursels as others see us!': method and purpose in comparing the New Testament / John M. G. Barclay -- Making friends and comparing lives / C. Kavin Rowe -- The past is a foreign country: on the shape and purposes of comparison in New Testament scholarship / Troels Engberg-Pedersen -- The possibility of comparison, the necessity of anachronism and the dangers of purity / Dale B. Martin -- Beyond compare, or: some recent strategies for not comparing early Christianity with other things / Matthew V. Novenson -- On comparing, and calling the question / Margaret M. Mitchell -- A response to friend-critics / C. Kavin Rowe -- Relational hermeneutics and comparison as conversation / Jonathan A. Linebaugh -- Comparing like with like?: the New Testament in its Christian literary environment / Francis Watson -- Resemblance and relation: comparing the gospels of Mark, John and Thomas / Simon Gathercole.