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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...

MATTHEW Matthew was a skilled literary craftsman. He presents five discourses, each of which begins in a specific context and ends with a formula found nowhere else: literally, “And it happened, when Jesus had finished saying these things, that …” (7:28–29; 11:1; 13:53; 19:1; 26:1). Five times Matthew alternates between narrative (stories about Jesus) and discourse (Jesus’ teaching). 1. Prologue (1:1–2:23) An Old Testament (OT) quotation, introduced by an appropriate
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