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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,...

Gospels—Matthew, Mark, and Luke—are all similar in structure and seem to share common material.5 The Gospel of John, by comparison, has a distinctly more theological tone. Yet each of the four Gospels of the New Testament has the same basic portrayal of Jesus as an itinerant who preached and performed miracles; was arrested, tried, and sentenced to death; and was crucified, rose from the dead, and appeared to his followers. After the Gospels comes the Acts of the Apostles, which is part two of the
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