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The Making of the New Testament: Origin, Collection, Text & Canon is unavailable, but you can change that!

The story of the making of the New Testament is one in which scrolls bumped across cobbled Roman roads and pitched through rolling Mediterranean seas, finally finding their destinations in stuffy, dimly lit Christian house churches in Corinth or Colossae. There they were read aloud and reread, handled and copied, forwarded and collected, studied and treasured. And eventually they were brought...

Redaction critics seek to discover the uniqueness and theological perspective of each Gospel by examining the ways each evangelist, as redactor/editor and theologian, handled the traditions that he inherited. Here scholars look for material that was added or omitted, how stories and events are arranged, the “seams” or transitions that connect them, changes in wording, the geographical setting and placement, and so forth. From this discipline we are able to appreciate why the evangelists introduced
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