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The Indelible Image: The Theological and Ethical Thought World of the New Testament, Volume 2: The Collective Witness is unavailable, but you can change that!

In this second of two volumes, Ben Witherington explores the symbolic universe and the narrative thought world shared by all the New Testament writers, in an effort to discern how they might synthesize the theology and ethics within the New Testament as a whole. He proceeds by addition, looking first at the theology and ethics of Jesus and seeing how the New Testament writers add to and...

book Paul’s Narrative Thought World I present a full-scale proposal along these lines, and so a précis of that volume’s results is in order.44 I did not come to a narratological study of Paul as a result of postmodern interest in narrative. Indeed, to the contrary, my interest in this subject arose in part because of my own literary background as a writer and a student of English literature, and also because of the influence of a little book that my doctoral supervisor, C. K. Barrett, wrote some
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