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Introducing the New Testament presents the complex and often challenging texts and history of the New Testament in a clear and informative manner. The book begins with a section that gives readers a clear idea of how to use it most effectively for study and personal research, followed by a chapter which outlines the various manuscript traditions and processes of transmission that resulted in the...

One of the basic difficulties which Paul sets out to combat is the Corinthians’ search for Greek wisdom: ‘While the Jews demand miracles and the Greeks look for wisdom, here are we, preaching a crucified Christ’ (1:22–3). This search for wisdom could conceivably be at the root of one of the rival factions, for Apollos, according to Acts 18:24, was ‘an eloquent man’ from Alexandria, one of the centres of Greek wisdom at this time. On the contrary, God ‘will destroy the wisdom of the wise’ (1:19, quoting
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