Essays in Biblical Criticism and Exegesis
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Essays in Biblical

Criticism

and Exegesis

William Sanday

Selected and Edited by

Craig A. Evans and Stanley E. Porter

with the assistance of Scott N. Dolff

Journal for the Study of the New Testament

Supplement Series 225

Classics in Biblical and Theological Studies

Supplement Series 2

Copyright © 2001 Sheffield Academic Press

Published by Trinity Academic Press, a wholly owned imprint of Sheffield Academic Press

Sheffield Academic Press

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Sheffield S11 9AS

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British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data

A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

ISBN 1-84127-281-7

Contents

Editors’ Foreword

Part I Method

Chapter 1

Biblical Criticism: The Fulness of Revelation in the New Testament

Chapter 2

Methods of Theology: The Historical Method

Chapter 3

The Eschatology of the New Testament

Chapter 4

The Interpretation of the Gospels as Affected by the Newer Historical Methods

Chapter 5

The Conditions under which the Gospels were Written, in Their Bearing upon Some Difficulties of the Synoptic Problem

Chapter 6

The New Testament Background

Part II Language

Chapter 7

The Language Spoken in Palestine at the Time of Our Lord

Chapter 8

Did Christ Speak Greek?—A Rejoinder

Chapter 9

Greek Influence on Christianity

Part III Exegesis

Chapter 10

The Parable of the Labourers in the Vineyard: Matthew 20:1–16

Chapter 11

A New Work on the Parables

Chapter 12

On the Title, ‘Son of Man’

Chapter 13

The Injunctions of Silence in the Gospels

Chapter 14

Some Leading Ideas in the Theology of St Paul

Chapter 15

St Paul’s Equivalent for the ‘Kingdom of Heaven’

Chapter 16

St Paul the Traveller

Chapter 17

The Early Visits of St Paul to Jerusalem

Chapter 18

Paul’s Attitude towards Peter and James

Chapter 19

The Text of the Apostolic Decree (Acts 15:29)

Index of Ancient Sources

Editors’ Foreword

The editors are pleased to present this volume as the first in the series, Classics in Biblical and Theological Studies, under the imprint of Trinity Academic Press and as part of the JSNT Supplement Series of Sheffield Academic Press.

The scholar William Sanday is not nearly so well known today as he once was, and as he deserves to be. Born on 1 August 1843 in Nottingham, he was educated at Repton, and then Balliol and Corpus Christi Colleges at the University of Oxford, being placed in the first class in Honours Moderations in 1863 and Literae Humaniores in 1865. He was also awarded the D.D. and LL.D. degrees by Oxford and the Litt.D. by Cambridge. Sanday was a Fellow of Trinity College in 1866 and a Lecturer in 1866–69, while being ordained in the Anglican Church in 1867. Sanday served a number of churches from 1869–76, before becoming Principal of Bishop Hatfield’s Hall in Durham, from 1876–83, while also being Examining Chaplain to Bishop J.B. Lightfoot in Durham from 1879–81. He then became Dean Ireland Professor of Exegesis of Holy Scripture from 1883–95, and then Lady Margaret Professor of Divinity and ...

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About Essays in Biblical Criticism and Exegesis

This volume gathers together in an accessible form a number of Sanday’s important articles in the areas of method, language and exegesis. In the section on method, Sanday has articles on Biblical criticism and interpretation. His writings on language include his responses in his dispute with A. Roberts. The section on exegesis touches on interpretation of the parables, understanding the son of man, issues in Acts 15, and, perhaps most importantly, his dispute with W. Ramsay. This is an important collection of essays by an important but now unfortunately often overlooked scholar of a previous generation.

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