The Background of the New Testament and its Eschatology [Paperback]

The volume is constructed and edited with care as a work which students can read with profit.Part I systematically surveys the present state of research on the background of the New Testament. (Dr Dodd's studies in the Septuagint and Hermetica suggested this theme.) Part II is on the particular problem of eschatology in the new Testament (with which his name is chiefly identified).Part I systematically surveys the present state of research on the background of the New Testament. (Dr Dodd's studies in the Septuagint and Hermetica suggested this theme.) Part II is on the particular problem of eschatology in the new Testament (with which his name is chiefly identified).These essays presented to Dr Dodd to honour a great teacher and scholar are on two themes. Part I systematically surveys the present state of research on the background of the New Testament. (Dr Dodd's studies in the Septuagint and Hermetica suggested this theme.) Part II is on the particular problem of eschatology in the new Testament (with which his name is chiefly identified).Part I. Towards an understanding of the background of the New Testament; 1. The task of exegesis E. C. Blackman; 2. The effect of recent textual criticism upon New Testament studies K. W. Clark; 3. Gnosis, Gnosticism and the New Testament R. P Casey; 4. The mythological background of New Testament Christology H. Riesenfeld; 5. The economic background of the New Testament F. C. Grant; 6. Die ebionitische Wahrheit des Christentums H.J. Schoeps; 7. Reflections on Archbishop Carrington's The Primitive Christian Calendar W. D. Davies; 8. Recent discoveries in Palestine and the Gospel of St John W. F. Albright; 9. The account of the Essenes in Hippolytus and Josephus M. Black; Septuagintal studies in the mid-century. Their links with the past and their present tendencies P. Katz; Part II. Towards an understanding of the eschatology of the New Testament; 11. The life of Jesus: some tendencies in present-day research T. W. Manson; 12. Enl#