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Discovering the New Testament: An Introduction to Its Background, Theology, and Themes, Volume I: The Gospels & Acts is unavailable, but you can change that!

Discovering the New Testament is a new and comprehensive introduction to the New Testament in three volumes, reflecting current research and scholarship in New Testament studies. Each volume provides a thorough discussion of background issues as well as treating theological themes and practical application. The first volume on the Gospels and Acts covers Jewish and Greco-Roman backgrounds,...

The center of the Biblical narrative, God’s story of salvation, is Christ. The story moves from God to creation, to fall, to Israel, with an ever-growing anticipation of a coming Messiah. The coming of Christ means we need to go back to the first parts of the story and reread them through the lens of his coming. We find that in so doing, some passages light up, clearly speaking of the Jesus who came (e.g., Ps 22; Isa 53; Dan 7:13–14). However, aside
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