The New Testament World

by John M. Court and Kathleen M. Court

In this companion volume to John Rogerson and Philip Davies' "The Old Testament World", the authors give a balanced presentation of the early Christian texts and illuminate the New Testament writings,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0135389925
• ISBN13: 9780135389928
• Release Date: January 1990
• Publisher: Prentice Hall
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 2.25 lbs.

Customer Reviews

A Useful Preaching Aid

As I step back and think about who this book might be useful to, I come to the conclusion that it would be a useful preaching aid. It does not try to raise questions which might call faith into question. Rather the scholarship that it does raise lends support to Christian theology. For example, in an analysis of the term "parousia" J & K Court note that in the papyri from the turn of the era, the term means "coming" or "presence." But the Jewish historian Josephus uses the term differently so the term refers "to the presence of God himself in a theophany (page 18)." The book opens with a section on Markan literature and theology followed by Pauline, Lucan, Matthean, Johannine, other NT writings, Gnosticism, and a section on basic Christianity. The book has an ample supply of great Christian art. This I also think lends itself to this book as being a useful preaching aid. A 12th century mural of Jesus as the Pantocrator (all powerful creator) s found on the same page as a section about Christian self-definition. But this book rates only four stars from me as the issues that it does raise were ones that were settled when I was doing undergrad work 35 years ago.