- Paperback: 636 pages
- Publisher: Fortress Press (July 21 2006)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0800618866
- ISBN-13: 978-0800618865
- Product Dimensions: 22.6 x 15.2 x 3 cm
- Shipping Weight: 771 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #356,686 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"As a student of the New Testament, I admire Johnson's thorough familiarity with scholarship, his desire to stay close to the texts themselves, and his lively interest in religious experience." -- ---Daniel J. Harrington, S.G. Theological Studies
"Readers of Luke Johnson's proliferating studies have come to expect a blend of masterful scholarship and raw imagination at once engaging and penetrating. His introduction to the New Testament will not disappoint. . . . The fresh vantage points into the contour and content of the texts themselves that his model opens up are to date without equal." -- ---David P. Moessner, Theology Today
"This is a resource which nobody who works with the New Testament should be without." -- ---Robert Morgan Theology --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
"Readers of Luke Johnson's proliferating studies have come to expect a blend of masterful scholarship and raw imagination at once engaging and penetrating. His introduction to the New Testament will not disappoint. . . . The fresh vantage points into the contour and content of the texts themselves that his model opens up are to date without equal." -- ---David P. Moessner, Theology Today
"This is a resource which nobody who works with the New Testament should be without." -- ---Robert Morgan Theology --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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"Johnson is extraordinarily successful in leading the reader into the New Testament texts themselves...Imaginative in conception, clear in presentation, and lively in style, the book deserves the wide use it is sure to enjoy for some time to come." -- Abraham J. Malherbe
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3.0 out of 5 stars
Good overall, but not without weaknesses,
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This review is from: The Writings Of The New Testament With Cd-Rom (Paperback)
Anyone who is able to successfully pen a book of this proportion comandeers respect by default from the watching world. Writing a 700 page book is no small feat; writing a 700 page book on such a nebulous topic as the writings of the New Testament is no smaller. Writing a 700 page book on the writings of the New Testament singlehandedly? Wow!And Johnson does it well. Overall, the book is well structured, well written, and quite informative. After a somewhat lengthy introduction, Johnson treats each book individually and addresses primarily literary concerns. However, try as I might, I simply cannot overlook two very important weaknesses of this book, at least as I perceive them. The first concern regards scholarship. Johnson has proven himself to be a more than competent scholar in the area of New Testament studies through this and other works. However, about 300 pages into the book, I glanced at the bottom of the page and noticed something very important missing: footnotes. There is not a single footnote in the entire book. This sort of writing may be appropriate for some fields of scholarship, but biblical studies is certainly not one of them! In an ever-tenuous field of study in which a multiplicity of opinions never ceases to abound, it is next to unthinkable to not reference the work of other scholars, both past and present. To Johnson's credit, he does include extensive bibliographies at the end of each chapter, but this is no replacement for interacting with scholarship within the text itself. The second concern regards format, and this may be related in a very real way to the lack of interaction with other scholarship. While Johnson opens this volume with an introduction in which he purports to propose a "new" model for balancing the religious, literary, historical, and theological dimensions of the New Testament writings in the interpretive process, this endeavor is gradually abandoned over the course of the book in favor of a running commentary of sorts. As a reader, I felt as though the originality - and thus the quality - of the work digressed as the book progressed. These concerns aside, however, this is indeed a very thorough introduction to the writings of the New Testament, and would serve quite well as a classroom text as long as it is not expected that the reader will be introduced to or encounter other scholarship via this book alone.
5.0 out of 5 stars
A "reader friendly" commentary on the New Testament text,
By Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Writings Of The New Testament With Cd-Rom (Paperback)
The Writings Of The New Testament: An Interpretation By Luke Timothy Johnson (Robert W. Woodruff Professor of New Testament and Christian Origins, Candler School of Theology, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia) is an erudite, scholarly, yet thoroughly "reader friendly" commentary on the New Testament text, in relation to history of the ancient world, Christian beliefs, and a page-by-page analysis of the scripture itself. An accompanying CD-ROM provides ready access to cross-referenced text. The Writings Of The New Testament is highly recommended as an exhaustive study enhanced with extensive bibliographical annotation and thought-provoking questions.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great Reference - go back again and again,
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This review is from: The Writings of the New Testament: An Interpretation (Paperback)
I bought this for a course on the Gospels and have gone back to this book every time I go to study another part of the New Testament. Johnson covers the NT extremely well and gives insights into the text and the context that is helpful to students, preachers and teachers. This updated version includes significant current NT scholarship. It is very well written, making the reading enjoyable.
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