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This substantial introduction explores the origin and character of the New Testament writings. Donald Hagner deals with the New Testament both historically and theologically, employing the framework of salvation history. He treats the New Testament as a coherent body of texts and stresses the unity of the New Testament without neglecting its variety. Although the volume covers typical questions...

set up the kingdom. Some modern accounts of Jesus sound like little more than repeats of Reimarus. Altogether gone from Reimarus’s understanding of Jesus is the transcendent, the supernatural, the entering of God into human affairs. Schweitzer believed that much in Reimarus was correct. The most impressive and influential of the nineteenth-century books on Jesus was that by the twenty-seven-year-old David Friedrich Strauss, The Life of Jesus Critically Examined (German original, 1835).5 William Baird
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