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Introducing the New Testament: A Short Guide to Its History and Message is unavailable, but you can change that!

This abridged edition of an established major textbook brings the best of New Testament scholarship to the church and makes it accessible to the average reader. Focusing on historical questions dealing with authorship, date, sources, purpose, and destination of the New Testament books, this book will help a new generation of students and church leaders better grasp the message of the New...

and important contribution to make to our understanding of Jesus. Nowhere in the NT is any of the four accounts of Jesus’ ministry called a gospel. The NT uses “gospel” and the related verb “preach the gospel” to denote the message of God’s saving act in his Son (e.g., in Mark 1:14–15; Rom. 1:16; 1 Cor. 15:1; Gal. 1:6–7). The early church added the title “gospel” to Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. These four titles preserve the stress on the singleness
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