The Indelible Image: The Theological and Ethical Thought World of the New Testament, Volume 1: The Individual Witnesses (Biblia.com)

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In this first of two volumes, Ben Witherington gives us core samplings on the theological and ethical thought world of Jesus and each of the individual New Testament writers, giving special attention to oft-neglected authors such as James, Peter, Jude and the author of Hebrews. Rather than abstracting a set of principles from these texts, Witherington contextualizes in true narrative form the...

In the case of the second suggested approach—to begin with Paul—we have equal difficulties. Paul was not one of the original disciples of Jesus. He never walked with Jesus or talked with Jesus. As far as we can tell, he never had a close encounter with Jesus until his experience on the road to Damascus, and this was well after Jesus had ascended into heaven. In other words, Paul never personally knew the historical Jesus. In addition to these facts, Paul only seldom quotes Jesus, and he is more concerned

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