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A Beginner’s Guide to New Testament Studies: Understanding Key Debates is unavailable, but you can change that!

This accessible and balanced introduction helps readers sort out key views on the most important debated issues in New Testament studies. Well-known New Testament scholar Nijay Gupta fairly presents the spectrum of viewpoints on thirteen topics and offers reflections on why scholars disagree on these matters. Written to be accessible to students and readers without advanced training in New...

Also, given that Paul likes to quote the Old Testament, one might expect him to quote Jesus, but he does so only on the rarest of occasions. A cursory reading of Paul’s literature would tell us that the apostle was far more interested in the Christ event (Jesus’s death and resurrection) than the life and teachings of Jesus. There appear to be only three places in Paul’s Letters where we detect an overt quotation from the Jesus tradition: 1 Corinthians 7:10–11; 9:14; and 11:23–25. To the married I
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