Introducing the New Testament: Its Literature and Theology Hardcover – August 10, 2001

This was the first book I purchased when I started Bible college (at Fuller). It's a simple but concise introduction to the New Testament, especially for readers such as myself who do not have any formal training in theology. And a bonus is that it comes on the Kindle!

Used it for my NT Masters Theology class, and I am planning on keeping it. I love that it is an easy read.

I am using this book for a class at Fuller and would recommend it for reading and study as a basic introduction to the New Testament. However, the pages started pulling away from the binding shortly after the thirty-day return policy expired. You might want to buy the ebook instead. I prefer to have a book I can highlight in but the hardback copy is too much money to have it break apart so soon after purchase. I am not sure a book with a spine this thick can last for any length of time and as a textbook, I use it almost daily.

Got to us in quick time, exactly as described. Excellent transaction. Thank you

Very informative i gained good information from this book for my class work thank you for the help that was needed to complete this class.

It has an ugly cover, so just take that off. The book is very insightful and is full of a lot of good information.

Although I took theology courses as an undergraduate at the Jesuit-run Boston College, this book was less rewarding than I'd hoped. Like many studies of the New Testament, it starts too late in the story. What the reader really needs up front is a thorough introduction to the beliefs, ethics, rituals, and structure of first-century Judaism as it was practiced in Jerusalem, Galilee, and Judea. Without that essential background, it's hard to understand precisely what Jesus was reacting against in his debates with the Temple officials -- what he was trying to get away from in establishing a new movement. A book like Geza Vermes's "Jesus the Jew" helps fill in that dead-zone in Christian understanding of what Jesus, as a first-century Jew, knew and understood his home religion to be, and what made him risk everything to change it.

I was required to get this book for my New Testament Literature class. At first, I wasn't reading it at all. I started to read it when I realized that all of the quizzes were based on the text.It was very informative on the New Testament to say the least. If you are a student or are looking into a New Testament theology class, I HIGHLY recommend that you at least check out this book. It will help you think an entirely new way about the NT.