NEW

TESTAMENT

INTRODUCTION

Donald Guthrie, BD, MTh, PhD

President, formerly Vice-Principal and Lecturer

in New Testament, The London Bible College

APOLLOS

Leicester, England

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INTERVARSITY PRESS

Downers Grove, Illinois, USA

APOLLOS (an imprint of Inter-Varsity Press),

38 De Montfort Street, Leicester LE1 7GP, England

InterVarsity Press,

P.O. Box 1400, Downers Grove, Illinois 60515 USA

Originally published in three volumes: The Gospels and Acts, 1st edition 1965; The Pauline Epistles, 1st edition 1961; Hebrews to Revelation, 1st edition 1962, 2nd edition 1964.

Third edition (revised) in one volume 1970

Fourth edition (revised) 1990

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Quotations from the Bible are from the Holy Bible, New International Version. Copyright (c) 1973, 1978, 1984 by the International Bible Society, New York. Used in USA by permission of Zondervan Bible Publishers, Grand Rapids, Michigan, and published in Great Britain by Hodder & Stoughton Ltd.

British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data

Guthrie, Donald

New Testament introduction.—4th ed.

I. Bible. N.T. Critical studies

I. Title

225.6

ISBN 0–85111–761–9

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Guthrie, Donald, 1916–

New Testament introduction/by Donald Guthrie.—Rev, ed.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN 0–8308–1402–7

I. Bible. N. T.—Introductions. I. Title.

BS2330.2.G87 1990

225. 6’1—dc20

90–30404

CIP

CONTENTS

PREFACE TO THE THIRD EDITION

PREFACE TO THE FOURTH EDITION

1 THE GOSPELS

General Introduction; Their Literary Form; Motives for their Production; The Place of the Gospels in the New Testament; The Best Method of Approaching the Gospels

2 MATTHEW’S GOSPEL

Characteristics; Purpose; Destination and Place of Origin; Structure; Authorship; Date; Language; Contents

3 MARK’S GOSPEL

Characteristics; Purpose; Destination; Structure; Authorship; Date; The Ending of the Gospel; The Beginning of the Gospel; Language; Locality; Historicity; Contents

4 LUKE’S GOSPEL

Characteristics; Purpose; The Readers; Structure; Authorship of the Gospel (and Acts); Date; Language; Contents

5 THE SYNOPTIC PROBLEM

The Nature of the Problem; A Brief Historical Survey of Solutions; The Written Sources Theory; The Marcan Source; The Source Q; Material Peculiar to Matthew; Material Peculiar to Luke; Conclusion

6 FORM CRITICISM AND ITS DEVELOPMENTS

Reasons for the Rise of Form Criticism; Various Types of Theory; General Criticisms of Form Criticism; The Value of Form Criticism; Theories of Theological Composition; Historical Criticism

7 JOHN’S GOSPEL

Characteristics; Authorship; Purpose; Date; Relation to the Synoptic Gospels; Structure; Theories of Dislocation; Language and Style; The Background of the Gospel; Historicity; Contents

8 THE ...